Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes

And with this release we see the beginning of the convergence of the Mono and Microsoft codebases. I'm glad Mono will be more reliable as a result, there have always been persistent reliability and compatibility issues that the Mono team hasn't been able to really fix.

It's also a little sad, in a way. It relegates Xamarin to maintainers of a distribution for another operating system. At the end of the day, C# and .NET are now officially first class citizens on Linux. Speaking as someone that actually ran Mono in production for around a year before realizing it was a ridiculous waste of time and money and switching to Windows Server 2012 after finding and filling dozens of untrackable deployment and stability issues in ASP.NET under Mono, I'm definitely not ready to switch back anytime soon, but Mono is definitely foreseeably a real option.

The Mono team did an amazing job, and they actually had a lot of support deep within Microsoft all along. But yeah, I think it's okay to say "it never really worked."

(And there's nothing wrong with being a port factory that deals with obscure path issues all day. That's why they give you a paycheck...)

Still, Xamarin is doing a LOT more than just Mono, much of it extraordinary.

Also delivering something that actually works is an ego boost. Probably attracts the "right" kind of employee for the task, too.

This is a draft. Mono 4.0 hasn't been released yet. Who keeps publishing mono's release-notes drafts as HN news?

I added a note to the page to make this clear.

HN mods: can we get a "(draft)" note added to the submission title as well?

Just curious.. Why cant the mono team replaces almost whole of their codebase with the code Microsoft open sourced? Is there anything stopping them to do that? Maybe licensing issues?