.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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woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhat’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.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All the new stuff is now on .NET Core/5.0 and up at least.
ADTJ@feddit.uk 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/…
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 2 months ago
IIRC Mono was mostly used for WASM as it was optimized for smaller builds than the full fat CoreCLR
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
WASM? Are you talking about WebAssembly?
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 2 months ago
yes
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 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.
Mihies@programming.dev 2 months ago
Hm, WinForms and WPF with Wine you mean? Otherwise makes not much sense. Was WPF ever run in this combination!
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah yeah. Mono didn’t support WPF, but Mono did support running WinForms apps natively on Linux without using Wine.
Mihies@programming.dev 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.