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by bluedino 4651 days ago
Jeff Atwood talks about moving from .NET to Ruby for Discourse in 'Why Ruby?'

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html

Boiled down to the licensing of the requirements to run the stack, and the whole open-sourceness of it all.

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I would love to run mono in production, it's just so slow and buggy that this isn't possible.

The simple fact is that server is not a priority for xamarin; mobile is. And this is probably a valid optimization.

BizSpark helps though, as far as licensing issues goes.

> I would love to run mono in production, it's just so slow and buggy that this isn't possible.

Is that the general opinion? I've never seen a consensus on mono for MVC.