The Mono Project: Porting Windows to Linux

C# (pronounced C-sharp) is a new object-oriented programming language designed to take advantage of Microsoft's .NET development framework. It has many similarities with other popular object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java, yet it offers some new goodies.

Linux offers the opportunity to develop C# applications thanks to a project called Mono. Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET platform. In the following sections, I will describe the main elements of the current implementation of the Mono system.