Opinions of and support for Mono on Ubuntu

[Matt Galvin]

Hi All,

I am interested in starting a project or two for Gnome and would like
to hear the opinions of others about Mono, C#, GTK#, etc... Its
viability as a platform for developement as well as its support on
Ubuntu/Gnome. I know its in the universe and I have played around with
it a bit. My reason for asking is, sadly my C has become a little
rusty since I have not done any "serious" C dev in a few years. I work
a lot with Java (as a professional developer) so the leap to Mono/C#
seems to be a very short one for me (plus I already have some basic
knowledge of C#). I also know a host of other stuff as I am sure most
of you do as well, PERL, PHP, Python, Shell Scripting, the web
alphabet soup, XML, and more, etc... So, what are your opinions, is
Mono stable enough, do you think it will last long term, etc... or
should I just get back into C (which I would like to do at some point
anyway).

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Matt