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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I've been trying to believe there's something nefarious at work

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess they just don’t want to bother with it any more?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Makes sense. Mono was necessary in the "old .NET" world, where runtimes were tied to Windows versions and the framework was a pure Windows framework. Mono made it possible to run old dotNET framework versions (up to 4.8) on other OSes.

Since dotNET Core and then dotNET 5 and higher, the framework itself is cross-platform so Mono is not necessary anymore, except for backwards compatibility for apps that use a now unsupported framework.

So it makes sense that Microsoft, after dropping the old dotNET Framework versions, also wants to stop supporting the cross-platform library that was only needed for those old versions.

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