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Has the Mono story gotten better? How feasible is it to develop without thousands of dollars of Microsoft software these days?
by ebiester 13y ago
Has the Mono story gotten better? How feasible is it to develop without thousands of dollars of Microsoft software these days?
- raverbashing 13y agoIt has been some time since I tried it Basically, YMMV. To develop, sure, it is feasible (I did this, but for a simple webservice), but it may be missing something essential to you.
- gfody 13y agoMono has gained serious traction the last few years. I've personally been using it along side .Net and am loving it. You could develop in Windows with the Free/Express versions of Visual Studio etc. and deploy binaries to Linux. You could also use monodevelop (http://monodevelop.com http://monodevelop.com) in Linux or OSX. There are C# plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ as well. Relevant: http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono https://servicestack.net/features https://servicestack.net/features http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18450/is-mono-ready-for-prime-time http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18450/is-mono-ready-for-p...
- bad_user 13y ago> There are C# plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ as well No, there aren't. And MonoDevelop has gotten better, Xamarin is doing a good job, but it's still a far cry from IntelliJ IDEA. If you want to target Mono, spare yourself the effort and just use Visual Studio.
- gfody 13y agohttp://emonic.sourceforge.net/index.html http://emonic.sourceforge.net/index.html IntelliJ still seems to be a wishlist item. Surprised there is nothing considering how many other great C# tools JetBrains produce.
- socialist_coder 13y agoFor command line apps they're fine. For web apps you still need to host them on Windows + IIS since the Linux+Mono c# web hosting is awful.