I don't understand the quote. Would you call C# and .NET development environments in the same vain as VS or IntelliJ? What's the preferred dev environment for M

I don't understand the quote. Would you call C# and .NET development environments in the same vain as VS or IntelliJ? What's the preferred dev environment for Mono? Further, there are several commercial dev environments for win32 that are really unmatched on other platforms, but aren't popular because they don't gen hip languages. Delphi and Clarion come to mind. I've worked with many dev environments, including the ones I mentioned, and I have to say the Mac/IPhone dev environment is fairly crude compared to these extremely mature, commercial examples. And to drift a bit, that .net patent stuff still isn't entirely resolved with Mono as far as I can tell. As long as that stink is still around, Mono is hands-off. It doesn't make any difference what MSFT or de Icaza say about MSFT's supporting the project, if MSFT isn't bound by some legal agreement that states that it has given up any patent rights and infringement protection for .net, then I don't see how Mono is completely free of liability.