I really wish Mono would gain more traction. C# (3.0 onwards) is one of the nicest programming languages I have worked with (despite its warts). I also heard a lot of good things about F#.
FYI, the current Mono website is pretty outdated right now and will soon be replaced by a new one built on Jekyll: check <a href="http://mono.github.io/website/" rel="nofollow">http://mono.github.io/website/</a> for a preview.
This is cool!<p>I got pretty far into building an MVC project that I have been working on for a long while in Windows.<p>I had to manually run the NuGet package restore command, as I couldn't see a way to enable package restore for the project. I set EnableNuGetPackageRestore=true preceding the command and it installed all the packages successfully.<p>I have run into a roadblock with a MSBuild TypeScript target however. The error message wasn't very telling but I'm assuming it's because it can't find the TypeScript compiler.
Interesting, how about performances of mono? The thing that attracts me to it is F#, however as others stated I'm out of windows development since 98.
Any time I wanted to use mono it didn't work. It wasn't many times though. A couple of times to try a FPS game and also for some sites based on Silverlight. I'm wondering if it is usable now or what's the common use case for it for which it works fine.
It looks like only the installer for OSX is up to date.<p>Is Ubuntu supported? Where do Linux users other than OpenSUSE users get packages? Do they build it themselves?
It's sad to see VB.net being treated as a second class citizen on this platform and ironic to see little GAMBAS be a better option for BASIC programming on Linux, given the resources.