The Mono project is an open source clone of. NET framework Microsoft. Its director, Miguel de Icaza has announced the arrival of his MonoDevelop Development Environment 2.4, consistent with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Many new features make their entry. Note the arrival of a engine and a new navigation bar and search function autocompletion.
Listed tools, MonoTouch (for developing applications for iPhones) has better support. To be fair, talking about MonoDroid (for developing applications for Android),. Due to its late onset, the tool is still in beta.
The UI has also been reviewed in depth.
Finally, side language, support for Vala has greatly improved. Vala is a programming language compiled. Its syntax is based on that of C # but it requires no runtime environment. Vala is transformed into C code, itself compiled into native machine code.
What can "produce software that requires less memory and run faster. Furthermore, the transition from step C makes it possible to use C libraries with interfaces defined in the files Vapi" (from Wikipedia).
These are just a few innovations from among the long list of improvements to the IDE.
MonoDevelop 2.4 download
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MonoDevelop website
This is not a scoop. NET is becoming more widespread. Today, the framework from Microsoft could affect Android, the Java platform of his great rival Google, thanks to a project from Novell, the Mono editor.
Small return on the Mono project.
Mono is implementing open-source and portable. NET framework. Some even say that Mono is preferred to Java application development for Linux workstation.
The project also aims to make applications interoperable with Microsoft Virtual Machine installed on posts in order to achieve compatibility on all operating systems without having to edit / compile the code.
And among the systems promising, there are obviously Android (Google's platform which initially covers smartphones, but who wants to generalize to all mobile devices, possibly more ...).
This project intends achieve MonoDroid, option for Android Mono somehow, to reach mobile and all the different devices in the future, adopt the OS giant's website.
By enabling the deployment. NET applications on Android, will allow Novell Does Microsoft to become an alternative to Java (especially in terms of interoperability with its virtual machine) or Python?
MonoDroid Or will he a minor project?
Time will tell (and especially the first preview, which is already attracting a lot of waiting).
MonoDroid was announced at Mix10, Microsoft's living room.