When comparing Lazarus vs MonoDevelop, the Slant community recommends Lazarus for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for making a cross-platform application?” Lazarus is ranked 2nd while MonoDevelop is ranked 6th.
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Pros
Pro Free alternative to Delphi.
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 Not actually delphi
It's close,. looks and feels the same. But not actually Delphi.
Con Buggy
Has some "weird" bugs according to some.
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.