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Ooof. I've done .net dev in the past, but most of my stuff is not in that space anymore. Are these the mono people working on this?

• sparkie 6y ago
  Has nothing to do with mono. Mono effectively died when Xamarin got acquihired by Microsoft. They shifted focus to providing OSX and Windows only tools for developing mobile apps with .NET, and mono development stalled, but parts got incorporated into dotnet directly. Microsoft have been much more friendly to open source in recent years. dotnet core is now supported and up to date on Linux. You can develop on Linux with VSCode (Visual Studio is still Windows only) or JetBrains Rider. You can consider dotnet core to be uncoupled from Windows. There are still parts of the .net frameworks which are coupled to windows, but they can be avoided with libraries like Avalonia.
  • rrmm 6y ago
    Ahh, ok thanks for the info.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    Just a small correction. Although Visual Studio for Mac started as just a rebranded version from Xamarin Studio, nowadays it shares several key parts with Visual Studio proper, implemented in .NET Core and shared across macOS and Windows.