[Gambas-user] Gambas has competition now

[Rob]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/03/17/monodevelop-1-0-officially-released

( http://xrl.us/bhs3j in case the link breaks )

The fruits of Novell's unholy alliance with Microsoft have finally 
reached 1.0, making it the second Free BASIC IDE with GUI designer to 
reach production status (after Gambas), and the first with the 
promise of cross-platform abilities.  

I don't think I would touch this with a ten foot pole due to the 
likelihood that Microsoft will start looking for money from Mono 
developers in a couple years, SCO-style, but I have no doubt that 
some organizations will use it.  I also just think that Gambas as a 
language is better designed than VB.NET, let alone C#.

I also think that anyone who is contributing or plans to ever 
contribute to the Gambas IDE, compiler/interpreter or components 
should refrain from downloading MonoDevelop.  It seems likely to me 
that Microsoft or one of its sock puppets would someday try to use 
that as evidence that Gambas developers were ripping off MonoDevelop 
or Mono in general.

Something to keep in mind.

Rob