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A Mono Update

Posted by James Vastbinder on Dec 18, 2010

Sections: Enterprise Architecture,; Operations & Infrastructure,; Process & Practices,; Architecture & Design,; Development
Topics: IronRuby ,; MonoDroid ,; MonoTouch ,; F# ,; IronPython ,; MonoDevelop ,; iOS ,; Python ,; Android ,; Ruby ,; .NET Languages ,; IDE ,; .NET ,; Dynamic Languages ,; Mobile ,; Mono ,; IDEs ,; Operating Systems ,; Moonlight ,; Programming ,; Announcements ,; Languages ,; UnityScript ,; Silverlight 4

Last week Miguel de Icaza published a long post listing all the work the Mono team at Novell has been doing since the move to GitHub in July 2010. Much of the new work has been around language development of F#, IronPython, IronRuby and UnityScript since they were recently released as open source. Included in the long list are improvements in MonoDevelop, the defacto Mono IDE, both on Linux and Mac OSX.

List of updates:

Running version of F# on Mono
Working version of UnityScript, a JavaScript strongly typed class based language
Announcement of Git support in MonoDevelop 2.6, now known as NGit
A new profile which replaces the old logging profiler, heap-shot profiler, heap-buddy profiler and statistical profiler
A memory leak detector for Moonlight
Mono on Android
MonoDevelop support for MonoDroid
Upgrade of MonoTouch to Mono 2.8
Addition of Jeroen Frijters’s IKVM.Reflection engine as a second backend to the C# compiler
Moonlight GPU acceleration from the Gallium work
Moonlight passing 47.77% of the Silverlight 4 test suite
Public beta of Moonlight in early 2011
Release of MonoMac 0.4
Launch of the MonoDevelop Add-in system

The busy Mono team plans to release betas of Moonlight 3 and 4 , MonoDevelop 2.6, Mono 2.10 and MonoDroid 1.0 by the end of the first quarter in 2011. Of particular note has been the interest of Mono on Mac with 144 downloads of the MonoMac add-in from December 1 thru December 8.