[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 20:40 +0000, IBBoard wrote:
> 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.

+1.   

BTW, I used Monodevelop for GUI .NET develop on LINUX for years.  It was
a really great package, and an excellent interface.  It was generally
very stable - a couple twitchy versions here and there.

Then the updates slowed to a trickle, nobody paid attention to
packaging, and it became [very sadly] clear that Mono and the luminaries
of that community have 'moved on' from Open solutions.  So I moved on as
well;  very happily still developing on LINUX with excellent tools, just
not Mono / Monodevelop any longer.

> 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.

... assuming you want to do Android development in .NET.  There is
always Java, Python, etc...  which work perfect well.

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

Yes.  The Gtk# designer and support in Monodevelop is bar none, one of
the nicest GUI design tools I've used.