Building Cocoa UIs for OS X with C# and Mono

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Has anyone spent any time comparing the various Objective C bridges and associated Cocoa wrappers for Mono?

I want to port an existing C# application to run on OS X. Ideally I'd run the application on Mono, and build a native Cocoa UI for it.

I'm wondering which bridge would be the best choice.

In case it's useful to anyone, here are some links to bridges I've found so far:

CocoSharp - distributed with Mono on OS X - www.cocoa-sharp.com
Monobjc - better documentation than the others (in my opinion) - www.mono-project.com/CocoaSharp and www.monobjc.net
NObjective - (apparently) faster than the others - code.google.com/p/nobjective
MObjc / MCocoa - code.google.com/p/mobjc and code.google.com/p/mcocoa
ObjC# - www.mono-project.com/ObjCSharp

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