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http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

As you can see the latest stable version of Moonlight is 1.0.1, which is roughly equivalent to the Silverlight 1 release. AFAIK the latest version of Sliverlight is version 3. I have seen very little content that actually works with Moonlight, it seems most everyone is using at least Silverlight 2 (including Channel 9).

Although in my opinion the Mono team consist of some of the best .NET programmers around, it's very difficult to keep up with the huge developer teams at Microsoft. Mono's full time development team (which Moonlight is a subset of) is actually smaller then the entire .NET Compact Framework team.

Of course this doesn't address the issue that Microsoft has a vested interest in ensuring that Silverlight only works on Windows, should Silverlight ever actually take off as a disruptive technology on the Internet. Adobe, who is not primarly a platform/OS vendor has no such conflict of interest.

I'm just curious approx how many people work in the MSFT robotics dept?

Also do you guys actually build robots, or just software to build robots?

Maybe, but I am stating my reason for not liking WPF, which I think it interesting because it's not "tooling sucks" or whatever the last 5 posters were talking about. Maybe it's not a "popular" reason, but it might be 5 years from now, because Windows marketshare is declining. IMO it's not a good idea to write software that can only run on Windows today. Software that is not tied to a platform gives your existing customer's choice, and expands your customer base at the same time.

And regarding Mono WinForms. It's better to be a second class citizen then not a citizen at all. Mono developers spend more time perfecting WinForms then GTK# anyway. With WinForms I can have a nice looking app on Windows, and a decent app on OS X and Linux. I was mostly targeting Linux I'd use GTK#, but Windows is still the primary platform of business, so WinForms is a better choice.

My primary reason for not looking into WPF is it's too Microsoft-proprietary. If I use WinForms, I can write an application that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. If I use WPF, I only have the option of supporting Windows. That is quite unappealing. I don't want my business model to literarly depend on another competitor's or potential competitor's business model.

Do a video on IronPython too

Be sure to ask if they have any plans for implementing CPython 3.0

I'm going to have to watch this video tommorow. Yay Ruby!

Seriously, WTF is WF, or should I say WTFWF?

Mono is great! My two favorite things: .NET and Linux

One of the things that sucks about Vista 64 (and it's due to this "security" feature) is you can not get ext3 filesystem support on it.