[Mono-list] Mono fitness for ircd project

[Miguel de Icaza]

> One of my interests is IRC and as such I'm looking into developing an IRC 
> daemon. I figure that I need for this could objects to open and use 
> sockets, a way of efficiently using regular expressions and string 
> functions as well as get somewhat decent performance out of it. Now my 
> question is, does Mono (currently) have the tools needed for such a 
> project? Would you recommend the use of C# for such a project? If not, 
> why not?

Mono has what you need now.  I am biased, but I should say you should
give it a shot, and tell us what kind of problems you run into: the more
real applications out there, the better to test and exercise the
runtime.

Miguel