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SharpDevelop death?

Open Jomme5 opened this issue 7 years ago • 5 comments

I see that the website is being closed. Development cycle of C# has slowed down to zero. Is this project death? I would be a shame in days of a bloated Visual Studio(3+GB already...). Just to be sure. Any reasons for this? Thx

Jomme5 avatar Feb 22 '18 20:02 Jomme5

The community Web site is a different story from the project itself. (really old code, low traffic)

Yes, the team that was working on SharpDevelop has long moved on. Reason is quite simple: for most people free as in beer is enough, and Microsoft is offering that. There was no audience any more (negligible).

christophwille avatar Feb 23 '18 06:02 christophwille

I still just use sharpdevelop as it is once in a while, and live with the minor bugs for now.

pgaskin avatar Feb 23 '18 13:02 pgaskin

It's a pity people's mentality is like you wrote, Chris. They only take 'free/gratis' from Freedom. I liked SD very much for what VS still misses, but mostly because it was OS licensed. Thank you for what you've done!

Faflu avatar Mar 28 '18 11:03 Faflu

Visual Studio must be free as a freedom, not a beer.

Duke Nukem must die!

hellboy81 avatar Apr 18 '18 12:04 hellboy81

What do you think about MonoDevelop? I haven't tried it but the development seems to be quite active and could be an alternative to consider.

aaferrari avatar Nov 11 '18 08:11 aaferrari