What is Mono?

• Mono means “monkey” in Spanish

• An Open Source .NET Framework Implementation

  • Efforts lead by Ximian, launched in July 2001
  • ~100 Contributors, ~30 very active

• Features implementation of:

  • Virtual Machine for Common Intermediate Language (CIL), a.k.a, Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
  • Class Libraries
  • C# and Basic compilers

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