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Any time I wanted to use mono it didn't work. It wasn't many times though. A couple of times to try a FPS game and also for some sites based on Silverlight. I'm

by jkbyc 12y ago

Any time I wanted to use mono it didn't work. It wasn't many times though. A couple of times to try a FPS game and also for some sites based on Silverlight. I'm wondering if it is usable now or what's the common use case for it for which it works fine.

_random_ 12y ago
If you play mobile games and have seen a Unity3d splash screen, then you have already used Mono. Silverlight is not Mono. Also Silverlight plugin is being displaced by the HTML5 plugin (shipping with the browser).
- jkbyc 12y ago
  I didn't realize that Mono doesn't do Silverlight. Now I read they refer to it as a separate project: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight Thanks
- lucian1900 12y ago
  HTML5 is not a plugin.
throwaway12321d 12y ago
If you want to run Windows .NET applications, in particular GUI applications you may have problems. But I have been using Mono for developing new software (libraries) for a decade and it works nicely. I often don't need a GUI and if I do, I just do that part on Windows later.
- jkbyc 12y ago
  That makes sense, thanks
- xtrumanx 12y ago
  Do you use an IDE when developing on mono or just a text editor? If you do use an IDE what's it like?
math 12y ago
we successfully host http://backrecord.com http://backrecord.com with it and this is now a very substantial project. I find there are often issues to work through when deploying the website (hanging out for ASP.NET vNext), but nothing that can't be overcome. We have background processes that do a lot of mathematics. With these, we find we can generally deploy what we've been testing with the Microsoft CLR to mono/linux and it just works.