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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] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s no work left to do on Mono and this is just handing over stewardship of the old code for legacy purposes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The .NET framework adds new APIs all the time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

? not really lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

.NET Framework was retired years ago by Microsoft and is in maintenance mode.

.NET (formerly .NET Core) is actively developed and is where Mono was forked into, hence Mono no longer being required. About the only thing Mono might be used for now is running .NET Framework binaries directly on Linux where you might not want the full .NET Framework under wine for compatibility or whatever reason. For example, running TShock (a Terraria server implementation) on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

and is in maintenance mode

probably still like a million annual cost of labor for Microsoft to upkeep