Compatibility
The Mono developers try to make sure that Mono is fully .NET compliant. Not only the compiler is supposed to be .NET compliant; the class libraries should be a counterpart as well. Currently, many classes have already been fully implemented. However, there are still major challenges to be faced. In particular, Windows-specific features will require a lot of work in the future.
Not surprisingly, the C# compiler is the core component of the Mono framework. For some time now, the C# compiler has been self-hosting. This is a major breakthrough in the development of Mono. In recent versions, the code generated by Mono is not very optimized. In future versions, this will most certainly change. A lot of effort will be put into the software ...
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