1. Prepared By Yan Drugalya
yan@unity3d.com

2. Prepared By Yan Drugalya
yan@unity3d.com

3. Agenda
 Goals
 History
 Products
 Architecture
 Features
 Demoes

4. What is mono
 Mono is:
 ECMA compliant implementation of .NET framework
 .NET compatible set of tools
 CLR
 Compiler
 xbuild.

6. Motivation
 C# is a beautiful language
 Bring C# to different platforms:
 Android, MAC OSX, Solaris, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
 No one was interested in developers
 Compatible runtime to the CLR
 ECMA made it possible
 Develop, build, debug on Windows, Linux or MAC

8. Products

9. Products

11. History
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DEC 2000 .NET CTP
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Jul 2001 Mono project started
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Jan 2002. .NET 1.0
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Aug 2003 - Novell acquires Ximian
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Jun 2004 - Mono 1.0
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Nov 2006 - Mono 1.2 (C# 2.0 support)
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Oct 2008 – Mono 2.0 (C# 3.0 and visual basic compiler)
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Jan 2009 - Mono 2.2
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performance improvements
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C# REPL
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AOT Compiling
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March 2009 – Mono 2.4 (2.2 for suse)
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Dec 2009 – Mono 2.6 (web, LINQ, xbuild)

12. History
 Sep 2010 Mono 2.8
 C# 4, ASP.NET 4.0
 Dynamic code generation and GC
 MEF
 Apr 2011 Attachmate acquires Novell
 May 2011 Xamarin founded
 2012-10-18
 C# 5.0, ASYNC

13. Current State
 OCT 2013 Mono 3.2
 AIM: full support of feature of .NET 4.0 except
WPF, WF, limited WCF
 C# 5
 F#
 2.10 is no longer supported

14. Components
Linux stack
Microsoft Stack
Gtk#, Mono.Posix, DB…
ADO, ASP, Web Forms…
Core: Compiler, VM

15. Modularity
Mono And .NET Miguel de Icaza PDC 2008

16. AOT/Static compilation
Mono And .NET Miguel de Icaza PDC 2008

17. Features
 Compiler as a library
 Mono linker (Re-shaping assemblies)
 Injecting Code Into the live process
 …

18. Demo

19. Games
Graphics
Engine
Game
engine
Game AI
Low
Level
Low
Level
Scripts

20. Demo

21. Games: Mono.SIMD
C#
IL
x86
• pos += delta
• call [Mono.Simd]Mono.Simd.Vector4f::op_Addition(
valuetype [Mono.Simd]Mono.Simd.Vector4f,
valuetype [Mono.Simd]Mono.Simd.Vector4f)
• movups (%eax),%xmm0
• movups (%edi),%xmm1
• addps %xmm1,%xmm0
• movups %xmm0,(%eax)

22. UI
Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too
Much On HTML5
 Android
 business logic:Xamarin studio or visual studio
 UI: Xamarin android designer
 iOS :
 business logic: Xamarin studio or visual studio
 UI: Xamarin android designer

23. UI
 Write once, run ugly anywhere (WORA)
 It is not about mono approach
 UI is a plugin!

25. Mono on Android

26. How to develop
 Be proactive!
 Don’t trust - test
 Don’t hope - deploy and test
 Be ready for Objective-C and Java

27. Other
 Play script
 XNA and Mono Game
 Win Forms on nokia N900
 mono on Raspberry Pi

28. References
 http://www.mono-project.com
 Miguel de Icaza presentation on PDC 2008
 Personal blog of Miguel de Icaza
 monodroid
 habrhabr.ru

29. Questions ?