IKVM has saved my ass a number of times. The ability to, at times, give up on the .NET ecosystem and peek into the Java ecosystem for suitable open source is fantastic.
We once had a project where some genius long ago had mandated that parts communicate via FTP. Eg one program uploads a file, another program monitors the directory. Total clusterfuck, so we wanted reliable automated tests. Turns out that doing an FTP server in .NET is pretty difficult. Full-fledged commercial libraries exist, but we just wanted a stub for testing.
IKVM, Apache Mina FtpServer solved it in two hours for us. I suspect many .NET shops use IKVM this way.
Sad to see it go, but it must've been an incomprehensibly huge one man hobby project for 15 years! If I were Jeroen I'd quit a long time ago :-)
Let's hope some shops get sufficient value out of it to maintain a fork. Jeroen if you read HN, thanks!!
We once had a project where some genius long ago had mandated that parts communicate via FTP. Eg one program uploads a file, another program monitors the directory. Total clusterfuck, so we wanted reliable automated tests. Turns out that doing an FTP server in .NET is pretty difficult. Full-fledged commercial libraries exist, but we just wanted a stub for testing.
IKVM, Apache Mina FtpServer solved it in two hours for us. I suspect many .NET shops use IKVM this way.
Sad to see it go, but it must've been an incomprehensibly huge one man hobby project for 15 years! If I were Jeroen I'd quit a long time ago :-)
Let's hope some shops get sufficient value out of it to maintain a fork. Jeroen if you read HN, thanks!!