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		gaius on March 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did Objective-C never catch on? (Ask Slashdot,... I don't think it's that. Rather a) on OSX, you might as well use real Cocoa and b) on Linux, if you want to integrate with anything else, then you might as well use GNOME/KDE.

batista on March 30, 2012 [–]

Exactly.

C# is extremely popular, but Mono is a tiny niche in the Linux world.

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