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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yeah. Mono didn't support WPF, but Mono did support running WinForms apps natively on Linux without using Wine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The problem with WinForms is that at least serious 3rd party libraries do a lot of direct API calls I guess, hence Wine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

All the new stuff is now on .NET Core/5.0 and up at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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/...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

WASM? Are you talking about WebAssembly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

yes