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by mariusmg 3806 days ago
MonoDevelop is cross platform and decent.

"And when it's all running on .NET Core it should be even faster." The IDE is written in Java and obviously runs on the JVM.
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admnor 3806 days ago
As I said in the comment you were commenting on, there is a JVM and a Mono VM. The IDE is running as two processes, one on the JVM (running the IntelliJ shell) and one on, currently, a Mono VM (running the ReSharper engine). They use IPC with a custom protocol to send UI events and ViewModel updates between the processes.
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gorohoroh 3806 days ago
Frontend is in Java (and Kotlin), indeed, as it's a part of the IntelliJ platform. However, the backend that actually provides IDE features for C# is written in .NET. The backend is actually the same ReSharper logic that runs in Visual Studio but in headless mode.
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winterbe 3806 days ago
Wondering how much code in Intellij Ultimate is already written in Kotlin. Parts of Kotlin Code in Intellij Community Edition is still kinda low:

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/search?l=kot...

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insulanian 3806 days ago
MonoDevelop is far from decent IMO. See my other comment for detailed complaints.
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jen20 3806 days ago
The UI is in the JVM, the back end is hosted on Mono when on non-windows platforms at the moment.
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