In Brief

  • The target of the Mono project is to provide a .NET-compliant programming environment.

  • Mono is currently developed by a company called Ximian and many volunteers.

  • With the help of Mono, it's possible to implement platform-independent code.

  • Mono's C# compiler produces common language runtime code.

  • A just-in-time (JIT) compiler translates intermediate code to highly optimized native machine code.

  • Mono is fully .NET compliant.

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