Mono 2.0
The Mono Project was intended to bring the benefits of Microsoft's excellent .NET framework and, in particular, the Common Language Run-time (CLR) to other operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. The home page even boasts that Mono is "positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications". If Mono provided a solid foundation then it could well become the platform of choice on systems like Linux but the 1.x implementations have been plagued by reliability and performance problems. Firstly, the design and implementation of a performant concurrent garbage collector is the single most difficult of the platform's core features to implement but is of absolutely critical importance. The implementation of a real GC for Mono was originally postponed and the Boehm GC was used instead, being described as an " interim measure " over 5 years ago. The Boehm GC is fundamentally flawed in this context, leaving programs to leak memory until t...