• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      .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.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      .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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        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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      3 months ago

      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)