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by Sir_Substance 3773 days ago
...because Visual Studio is a C#/C++ IDE that works on Windows, and Xamarin Studio is also a C#/C++ IDE that works on Windows?

Xamarin Studio is a swiss army knife. I don't know about your use case, but I use it under the name Monodevelop on linux (not really sure what that association is) and as Xamarin studio on windows. For my use case, it's a C# and C++ IDE for desktop development, same as visual studio.

It's certainly not a MacOS only product, it supports all three platforms including windows.
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pjmlp 3773 days ago
Have you ever used .NET on its own platform?

Mono only supports a subset of the whole stack.

No sane .NET developer would use Mono on Windows, its purpose is .NET portability to other OSes.

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Sir_Substance 3773 days ago
Xamarin studio can be run against .net on windows, it's not mono specific.
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pjmlp 3773 days ago
Yes, but what is the value of doing that instead of using Visual Studio?!
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Sir_Substance 3772 days ago
Maybe I like it better?

WHY ARE WE ARGUING?

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