[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

[Damian Kohlfeld]

Thanks very much for the reply, a lot to think about, definitely.  I'm  primarily interested in developing console apps for now, and perhaps some ASP.net.  

MD is a nice looking app, I just wish it wouldn't crash everytime I compile something.  For now, I'm doing my compilations manually from the cli.  I'll tackle getting the gui widgets to work later on.  For now, I just need to build console apps.  The autocompletion works great, I must admit I'm very spoiled by VS2010/12 in terms of intellisense.  But, for tab completes, MD works great!  

Personally, if I can make this work on Linux, that would be my preference.  I have a mac too, so perhaps I'll play around with that as well.

Thanks again,
Damian

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Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

It depends what you're trying to do.

Originally, MonoDevelop was written for Linux, because the guys worked for Ximian and then Novell and were bringing .Net to Linux. Then everyone got shiny new Macs and lots of the developers jumped over to OS X, leading to an improved MD on Mac being released. Windows also works, but there it is competing against SharpDevelop and (of course) Visual Studio.

If you want to do Android or iOS development then you need Windows (with a Mac for the iOS build) or Mac (I believe it does Android as well).
Unfortunately, Linux has now become the poor sibling and doesn't get all the shiny toys.

If you want to do more general Mono development (libraries, command-line apps or ASP.Net to run under Mono on a Linux server) then you're probably best using Linux. If you want WinForms and Windows users then you're probably better with Windows (and, to be honest, you might even be better using SharpDevelop or Visual Studio Express because of the WinForms designer, although the latest MonoDevelop 4/Xamarin Studio might have changed the feature balance a little).

Personally, I develop my library code, library tests and GTK# interface on Linux and my WinForms interface in Windows using VS.Net Express.



On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:08 -0300, Jonathan Lima wrote:
> Yes, it's pretty stable in all supported platforms. Why Linux would be 
> the wrong direction if one of the goals of MD is a cross-platform IDE 
> for .Net?
> 
> 2013/3/11 Damian Kohlfeld <damian at kohlfeld.com>
>         What is the preferred OS to use?  Perhaps I’m going in the
>         wrong direction trying to run this on Linux.  Is monodevelop
>         on windows stable?
>         
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>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Damian
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