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by viraptor 4828 days ago
What do you mean by supportable? I was happily using mono for a number of custom servers in a similar way a couple of years ago. You don't need any huge frameworks to make mono really useful.
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What, you mean, unless you're doing something useful like trying to write a web app?
Writing web apps may seem like the only thing people do lately, but it's not. Given a choice of a number of languages and runtimes available 5 years ago for example, .net/mono was a perfect choice for a daemon dispatching jobs to a number of usb dongles where having a good ffi (p/invoke), nice io abstraction, async actions and database interface was important.

This is something you write from scratch. No big frameworks are involved. If I ever find I need MVC.net, I'll probably go with a completely different language.

What if you already have code written in MVC.NET?
I couldn't get an ASP.NET 3.5 app running a while back.