Microsoft hand original mono project off to WineHQ

30p87 , 4 hours ago

Creators of cheap Java copy throw away one of the most important aspects of Java and its copy.

Dremor , 2 hours ago

Having worked on both Java (as a student), then .NET, the later has a lot of features Java didn’t have.

Ironically, as Wine (and Proton) uses Mono, MS contribution (among a lot of other projects) may have enabled Valve to make Proton what it is today.

scrubbles , 4 hours ago

I’ve been trying to believe there’s something nefarious at work

monolalia OP , 4 hours ago

I guess they just don’t want to bother with it any more?

F04118F , 2 hours ago

Makes sense. Mono was necessary in the “old .NET” world, where runtimes were ties to Windows versions and the framework was a pure Windows framework. Mono made it possible to run old dotNET framework versions (up to 4.8) on other OSes.

Since dotNET Core and then dotNET 5 and higher, the framework itself is cross-platform so Mono is mot necessary anymore, except for backwards compatibility for apps that use a now unsupported framework.

So it makes sense that Microsoft, after dropping the old dotNET Framework versions, also wants to stop supporting the cross-platform library that was only needed by those old versions.

teletext , 2 hours ago

Unity3d (a widely used game engine) ships with Mono, which makes modding easy for the developers to implement and the modders to use. Many hobbyist and professional programmers like to use Linux even for gaming, thanks to Steam’s Proton. But until now you can only mod on Windows. With the gifted code maybe it will be possible on Linux, too.

The gamers on Windows are happy because they get more mods, and it is also good publicity for Microsoft.