ProtobufDecoder VS MonoDevelop

Decoding protobuf (and message formats in general) can be such a pain and fun at the same time.

I’ve written ProtobufDecoder which takes a different approach: analyze the structure of the actual messages to help you figure out the protobuf structure of a message.

https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder

Get it while it’s fresh: https://github.com/sandermvanvliet/ProtobufDecoder/releases/tag/0.2.0

An older version of the underlying source code remains available: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop

From what I understand MonoDevelop has been discontinued. Even their repo has been archived.

SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop are both dead and focused for devs which gives them different priority than apps targeted at non-devs, but they show how to put together seriously complex apps, and they're the ancestor of the Visual Studio for Mac.

Monodevelop

There are Linux binaries for MonoDevelop which is what VS for Mac is based on.

Using Visual Studio with Wine is not really possible. But you have other IDEs as options. You can pack Visual Studio Code with the needed plugins. You can use MonoDevelop which is the IDE from the Mono project https://www.monodevelop.com/. Something to add here, the Mono project is actually developed by Microsoft. And there is Jetbrains Rider, I personally use it every day at work and am kind of in love, but it costs you 139 € in the first year.