Mono
Mono is a free and open-source project led by Xamarin, a subsidiary of Microsoft, and the .NET Foundation, to create an Ecma standard-compliant .NET Framework-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono's .NET implementation is based on the ECMA-334 and ECMA-335 standards, and more recently, the .NET Core.
History[edit | edit source]
Mono was originally developed by Ximian as a project to allow Windows .NET applications to run on Linux. Ximian was later bought by Novell, which was in turn bought by Attachmate in 2011. Attachmate laid off all Mono employees and discontinued MonoTouch and Mono for Android product lines, but shortly after in the same year, Miguel de Icaza and other former Ximian employees started a new company named Xamarin, which continued the development of Mono.
Architecture[edit | edit source]
Mono's architecture consists of the C# compiler, the Mono runtime, which provides support for garbage collection, JIT compilation, reflection, serialization, and interoperability, and a class library that provides a comprehensive set of classes that provide a solid foundation to build applications.
Applications[edit | edit source]
Mono has been used to build several notable applications, including Unity, a multi-platform game engine; Xamarin, a set of tools for building mobile applications; and GNOME Do, a launcher application.
See also[edit | edit source]
- .NET Core
- .NET Framework
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Portable.NET
- DotGNU
- Comparison of application virtual machines
References[edit | edit source]
External links[edit | edit source]
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