MonoDevelop vs Waf DotNetPad

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MonoDevelop		Waf DotNetPad
	Project
16	Mentions	-
2,681	Stars	135
-	Growth	-
1.7	Activity	6.1
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	26 days ago
C#	Language	C#
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

MonoDevelop

Posts with mentions or reviews of MonoDevelop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.

Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023

An older version of the underlying source code remains available: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop
Any real free alternative to VS on Linux?
1 project | /r/csharp | 11 Mar 2023

From what I understand MonoDevelop has been discontinued. Even their repo has been archived.
Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021

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.
Thoughts about an article talking about the insecurity of linux
4 projects | /r/linux | 27 Sep 2021
Any IDE to create VB .NET applications on LINUX??
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 15 Sep 2021

Monodevelop
Develop apps on ubuntu(or other distros).
1 project | /r/dotnet | 13 Jul 2021

There are Linux binaries for MonoDevelop which is what VS for Mac is based on.
Some questions about coding c# on linux
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 10 Jul 2021

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.
VS Alternative for Linux?
3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 8 Jul 2021
Since .NET 6 will be cross-platform, will visual studio be available on linux?
3 projects | /r/csharp | 2 Jul 2021
Working with .Net Framework project (Asp.Net) project in linux
1 project | /r/dotnet | 16 Jun 2021

Waf DotNetPad

Posts with mentions or reviews of Waf DotNetPad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Waf DotNetPad yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MonoDevelop and Waf DotNetPad you can also consider the following projects:

SharpDevelop

RoslynPad - A cross-platform C# editor based on Roslyn and AvalonEdit

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

Visual Studio Community - GitHub Extension for Visual Studio

dotdevelop - MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

AvalonStudio - Cross platform IDE and Shell

Consulo - Platform repository of Consulo. Plugins implementation hold in their repositories