14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Mono first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“For now, we are accepting the Mono tax to be more productive. But I am hoping that Unity will deliver on the CoreCLR dream.”
regret · production · iliketrains · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Smilebooth's backend runs on mono on linux... it just worked (iirc the only change was the command line arguments)”
endorse · production · daxfohl · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started with Mono in 2010 before a lot of the modern tools... At the time mono was very buggy. Now, Mono is a lot more stable.”
mixed · production · 8 yr · gwbas1c · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“tried deploying on Mono way back before .NET Core was even an idea and realized the futility of it”
regret · production · ComputerGuru · 2017-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All in all, it's been smooth sailing. Stuff just works. ... I can't say enough good things about F# and about Mono.”
endorse · production · MichaelGG · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've personally been using it along side .Net and am loving it.”
endorse · personal · gfody · 2013-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use mono for a real time trading system and find it to be more than capable of handling our needs.”
endorse · production · chollida1 · 2013-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are moving everything to Mono. It is working for us.”
endorse · production · aespinoza · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there are still rough edges that drove us crazy to the point that I finally convinced him to switch over to a Windows server”
regret · production · mattw · 2010-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We can inspect those assemblies and the saved script state is stored in an LL-defined serialization format”
neutral · production · HaroldCindy · 2025-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I definitely wouldn't have wanted to port to it from mono”
neutral · production · sbelskie · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using mono for the last couple years, so much so that I call myself a "mono developer" and not a ".NET developer".”
neutral · production · 2 yr · itsboring · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've only toyed around with mono for web programming, I've not used it in production”
neutral · personal · rjbwork · 2013-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“this time for the C bits of Mono”
neutral · production · migueldeicaza · 2013-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?