The article describe the problem of not having a clean cross-platform workflow programmers running Visual Studio and Mono Develop can use to seamlessly collabor

The article describe the problem of not having a clean cross-platform workflow programmers running Visual Studio and Mono Develop can use to seamlessly collaborate on the same codebase, something that's really easy for just about anything else. This sort of non-conventional workflow has traditionally been a problem with Microsoft's developer tools. If you go too far outside the use cases they have designed for, the tools start to work against you. I've noticed a reversal in this trend with things like ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework. The people I know at Microsoft developer tools seem to "get it" and want to make things that are more ecosystem-friendly and less prescriptive. This particular case (using heterogeneous tools on different platforms to work on the same codebase) isn't just difficult on .NET. Lots of people feel your pain.