development framework

Today the Mono Project released the much-anticipated Mono 2.0 for Linux. After two-and-a-half years in development, Mono 2.0 is finally here and ready to run your .NET 2.0 applications, Windows Forms, ASP.NET content on Mac OS X, BSD and Linux.

Mono is multi-language capable--choose your own path from C#, VB, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Eiffel, F#, Oxygene and more.

Mono is a cross-platform, open source .NET development framework. Now the question is, why? Why would anyone want to use .NET for anything if you're still using PHP, Python, Java, etc. for development?

Mostly it's because Miguel...