I've been using MonoDevelop 2.2 builds quite a bit on OSX for developing in MonoTouch. I have very mixed feelings about it (and granted, I haven't tried the final 2.2 release yet, but all builds leading up to it).<p>MonoDevelop is a nice, lighter weight Visual Studio clone. VS users will feel at home right away. Its intellisense is quite good (just as good as VS's), it's refactoring is nice, most features are either as good as VS or better. For example when you do a replace, it highlights in your current document all instances of your find string to give you a better sense of what the replace is about to do. There are lots of little touches like that that I really like a lot.<p>On OSX at least though, GTK# has some issues. Often times the window ignores mouse clicks, and this is a massive roadblock to using the app efficiently. To fix this you have to cause a refocus to happen, such as focus a different app then come back to MD or focus a different part of MD. If the final release didn't fix this (and I reported this bug), then that's a huge deal breaker. This problem really hurts productivity and workflow. I also don't like how MD doesn't work with apps like SizeUp, and how dialogs are not modal. For example, the find in files dialog is not modal, so after you use it, it can go behind the main window. Then from then on the key command to invoke it seems to do nothing, as the window is still around. You have to go behind the main window and close it.<p>TLDR: On OSX, a nice IDE that is very VS-like with some nice added touches, but has some UI issues that can really hamper it.
I'm really interested in the LLVM backend! Probably my favourite part of this release.<p>Also make sure you check out MonoDevelop's feature matrix. I'm currently at work and wanted to try out the Python support but found out it's not supported on Windows:<p><a href="http://monodevelop.com/Download/What%27s_new_in_MonoDevelop_2.2#Feature_Matrix" rel="nofollow">http://monodevelop.com/Download/What%27s_new_in_MonoDevelop_...</a>