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[ravuya]

Are you using the 1.1 or 2.0 runtime? Did you have to go out of your way to get this working (i.e specifically avoid certain parts of .Net) or does Mono simply support all the parts that might be used in gamedev?

I'm using the 2.0 runtime, and haven't run into any problems.

If you're worried, Mono does provide a tool (MoMA) which you can run against your assemblies to check for compatibility. I wish it were non-graphical, so I could include it in my build process, but that's another task on tooling up for .NET.

[Ryan]

Are you using the 1.1 or 2.0 runtime? Did you have to go out of your way to get this working (i.e specifically avoid certain parts of .Net) or does Mono simply support all the parts that might be used in gamedev?

I'm actually not sure which runtime I used. I didn't really use much of the .Net runtime though, so I didn't intentionally avoid anything. I just used things like lists and such which worked fine for me on both .Net/Windows and Mono/OSX.

I believe if you aren't using anything super insane everything should work fine, but I haven't gone back to C# after I had the problems with it for my engine. (The way I use SDL_Image and OpenGL on C/++ doesn't work on C#! Attempting to change it never worked out )

[jankoM]

(not sure if anyone is interested, but I made a short tutorial on how to compile ocaml with opengl and sdl bindings on windows. its here http://itmmetelko.com/blog/?p=74 )

[oneup]

ocaml looks akward.

better try lisp+SDL: http://lispbuilder.sourceforge.net/#release ^__^!

[Hideous]

... It would be really cool if someone used Brainfuck as a scripting language

Hard as hell, but cool.

[jankoM]

ocaml looks awkward just because it's a little different. I like the syntax. I added a minimal SDL example with keyboard input and moving sprite and it is made without any mutable data or global data for the state. http://pastebin.be/8182

lisp + sdl also looks interesting, is there openGL for list also?

[ravuya]

I'd seriously be surprised if there weren't GL bindings for lisp.

[jankoM]

Lisp looks right now a little too "wordy" for me. I like ocaml because it has very strong constructs and very little of noise. BUt I am interested in knowing lisp also , because it might seem wordy just because I don't yet know what is going on with code.

I looked at various lisp and scheme options a while ago, but it's problematic .. there are so many lisps, so I didn't even know where to dig-in. On the other hand finding any concrete binding where you see it's supported and has something written in it was hard to me. This link geeq gave with SDL bindings seems concrete and live to me... but I didn't find it when I was searching bach then.