Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 months ago

    What’s the twist? There must be some reason.

    .NET runs natively on Linux since quite some time. Honestly, I don’t get what Mono is even good for these days. Maybe reverse engineering old .NET versions.

    • NekkoDroid@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      IIRC Mono was mostly used for WASM as it was optimized for smaller builds than the full fat CoreCLR (talking about .NET non-Framework Mono)

    • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      .net core is the future but Mono is still important for running legacy .net framework applications like ones that use WinForms or WPF. That’s pretty much it. Anything new should go straight to .net core.

      • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Hm, WinForms and WPF with Wine you mean? Otherwise makes not much sense. Was WPF ever run in this combination!