MonoDevelop Review

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SpecsUpdate

PlatformsWindows Linux Mac

Supported languagesC#, F#, Visual Basic .NET, Vala

Visual GUI BuilderYes

GUIFrameworkGTK

Stable release7.6.9.22 / September 21, 2018

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Pros

Pro
Free

MonoDevelop is free to download and use.

Pro
Starting up this program doesn't take as long as starting Visual Studio windows 98

Cons

Con
No longer supported (deprecated since 2018)

Starting with version 4.x, Xamarin rebranded MonoDevelop as Xamarin Studio, but only for the Windows version of the IDE.
Stable release
7.6.9.22 / September 21, 2018

Con
Bad formatting

MonoDevelop doesn't offer much in terms of autocompletion and code formatting. Most of the time the automatic formatting that MonoDevelop does is annoying and not really compliant with C# guidelines.

Con
The MonoDevelop version that ships with Unity is several versions behind

The version of MonoDevelop that ships with Unity is several versions behind the main MonoDevelop branch. It also gets updated very rarely so any annoying bugs that it may have take a lot of time to get fixed.