Mono Silverlight implementation emerges after epic hackathon

After 20 days of “intense” programming, Novell’s Mono development team has successfully produced a functioning prototype of Moonlight, an open-source Mono-based implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight rich-media application development framework. In a blog entry, lead Mono developer Miguel de Icaza describes how his small team of globally dispersed developers managed to conjure up their entire Moonlight prototype (almost 25,000 lines of C++ code and over 13,000 lines of C# code) in only 20 days by giving up weekends and working 12 to 16 hours per day in a remarkably epic “hackathon.”

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