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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    .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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    .NET runs natively on Linux

    Only .NET Core sadly

    When I moved my personal laptop to Linux I needed WINE to run some source-available .NET apps that were written targeting the Windows-only .NET Framework

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Hasn't been called ".NET Core" since 3.1

    Although it's essentially the subsequent version of core, .NET 5 is the successor to both .NET Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.

    Since then, it's just been called .NET 5/6/7/8/...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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)

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