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Subject: Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
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> may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono
> on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea.
>
> To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community:
> 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD?

whatever i need. i personally use mostly C.

> 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language?

i don't think so.

> 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it
> better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)?

i don't know how popular it is for what tasks. but it works excellent for 
all you specified. it's unix anyway.