When comparing MonoDevelop vs GitHub Electron, the Slant community recommends MonoDevelop for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for making a cross-platform application?” MonoDevelop is ranked 6th while GitHub Electron is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose MonoDevelop is:
MonoDevelop is free to download and use.
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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
Pro Relatively low barrier to entry
No need to learn native UI APIs for multiple platforms.
Pro Has a built in packager which allows you to package web apps
the electron packager tool allows you to package your web app for any target platform that you desire, as long as you provide the correct information.
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.
Con Looks and feels like an alien
Con Microsoft
Developed by Microsoft-owned Github
Con Extra effort may be required to make things look native on each platform
Con Mobile platforms not supported
According to documentation only Windows, Linux and Mac are supported, no mobile platforms.
Con Heavyweight
Requires a bit of system memory, and makes applications bulky due to the fact that all your web apps made in electron work in a NodeJS Shell that is basically a web browser displaying your app.