In the future, Mono will be under the auspices of the Wine project: Microsoft is handing over the open source replica of the .NET Framework to developers of the Windows compatibility layer for other operating systems. However, Mono is an alternative to classic .NET, which Microsoft already sees as a legacy product – currently it is .NET, which is designed for cross-platform development anyway.
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Accordingly, Microsoft has stated in the announcement that active Mono users would be better off migrating their applications to modern .NET. Moreover, the latter is also based on the Mono project, as Microsoft took over the project in 2016 together with Xamarin. It has always been under an open source license anyway, but Microsoft was able to completely redesign its own framework with the newly acquired developers of the .NET clone. And according to Microsoft, this work is now officially completed.
So it’s no wonder Mono has been quiet in recent years – the last major release came five years ago, and only small patches have come since then. And even though Microsoft highlights Mono’s importance for the spread of .NET to platforms other than Windows in the announcement, the question arises as to what significance the project might still have – is Microsoft really giving the community a gift here or getting rid of it? Is the corporation just maintaining outdated code?
The full announcement can be found on the Mono Project website,
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