&gt; MonoDevelop is a clone of Visual Studio written in C#<p>They might have great intentions with MonoDevelop when it first launched, but it has been lagging behind other IDEs forever. With things like IntelliJ Rider, this position is not going to improve.<p>From my perspective Microsoft has done more with Visual Studio Code since its release 10 months ago than MonoDevelop has done in a decade. I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s easier to extend VSC to use it for C# development (which it already supports [1]) than to get MonoDevelop on par with modern IDEs.<p>And despite being JS&#x2F;TS, the IDE is very very fast.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;languages&#x2F;csharp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;languages&#x2F;csharp</a>