What is Mono?
It is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications part of the .NET Foundation. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.
Mono is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Mono is an open source tool with 11.1K GitHub stars and 3.8K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Mono's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Mono?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Mono in their tech stacks, including cartheur, Ably SDKs, and Croesus.
Developers
57 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Mono.
Mono Integrations
C#, Debian, Entity Framework, Windows, and Mac OS X are some of the popular tools that integrate with Mono. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Mono.
Pros of Mono
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Mono's Features
- Cross platform
- Open source
- Implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework
Mono Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Mono?
Braid
It is built into the tools you already use – Gmail, Google Calendar, and Slack – so you can stay focused on the task at hand instead of bouncing around from wikis to email to notebooks to whatever else to save and share your work, no matter where your teammates are.
Flux
Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
