http://arstechnica.com/columns/linux...20050102.ars/2
Development application of the year
We judged ease of use, documentation, maturity of tools, and ease of
deployment.
Those magical programs facilitate the creativity flow from the hands of
the programmers. A good development application or framework allows
someone with an idea and some know-how to do his part to change how
people interact with their data.
Winner: Mono
The Mono Project develops a common language runtime environment and
development tools that aim to conform with Microsoft's .NET framework.
The pace of Mono's development and maturation as a platform has been
very rapid and has encouraged the creation of a plethora of tools and
applications targeting the Mono runtime and built with the Mono
development toolset. It has made the language C# increasingly popular
for rapid application development on Linux. Additionally, development
tools such as MonoDevelop have been written and continue to improve
rapidly to provide the closest thing to an ideal RAD environment for Linux.
