That is interesting, I suppose if its a console application that you
could use vscode and it would compile  under Linux -- although I have
not gotten it to work at all under Linux, so its in early stages.

Edward Ned Harvey (mono) <[email protected]> wrote:

> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > 
> > Why not use vs 2015 and vs code, supposed to work on Windows, OSX or
> > Linux, although I don't know what versions of OSX they are supporting.
> > I wonder how long mono is for this world?
> 
> Is that just a blatant troll? Even with .Net being open source, you cannot 
> ever expect it to simply compile straight up, on a non-windows platform. Lots 
> of changes are required under the hood to implement things like file and 
> socket operations, which are fundamentally based on different underlying 
> technologies. You should not expect such an effort to ever be done - because 
> it's already been done in mono, and there's no motivation for anyone to 
> repeat all that work in a separate project.
> 
> So the long and short of it is: You should expect mono to adopt the .Net 
> source code rapidly, and therefore mono is and will continue to be 
> indefinitely, the canonical way of running .Net code on non-windows platforms.
> 
> It just so happens, VS is better than XS/MD in a lot of ways... But XS/MD is 
> also better than VS in a few ways. Particularly, I don't think you should 
> ever expect VS to build a Xam.Mac project, and in VS, if you want interactive 
> code analysis you have to pay for Resharper. But that capability is built-in 
> to XS/MD.
> 
> Personally I like to edit code in both XS/MD, and VS, so I can take advantage 
> of the strengths of each.

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