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by azakai 4090 days ago
> It's also a little sad, in a way. It relegates Xamarin to maintainers of a distribution for another operating system.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. As I understand things, Mono is still keeping its runtime - JIT, garbage collector (the release notes here mention optimizations to SGen), etc. That means Mono isn't nor is it planning to be "just" a distro for Microsoft's .NET. (But it is using more and more Microsoft library and compiler code.)

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>I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. As I understand things, Mono is still keeping its runtime - JIT, garbage collector (the release notes here mention optimizations to SGen), etc.

So? Who will still use those, if there's a fully supported MS based (+ some open source effort for some edges) alternative?