[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

[Daniel Hughes]

I use monodevelop on linux for my widemargin development (every day),
over each release MonoDevelop there has gotten better and better, In
some ways it's ahead of VS2012.

I have not had Adam's experience and have found the reverse to be true.

Cheers,
Daniel Hughes

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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