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Agreed with this. I used to code C# for a living but have moved on- however, I'm now playing around with MonoTouch in my spare time and I'm loving using C# again.

MonoDevelop is a poor man's Visual Studio, but it's a lot less demanding and runs on OSX. Backend frameworks like Nancy.fx are really great for being even simpler versions of MVC, too.

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I was shocked how well MonoDevelop worked out when I used it briefly a couple of years ago. But my expectations were pretty low -- I was expecting a compatibility quotient something close to Wine circa 2001, and got instead a basically functioning C# environment on my Mac, which was pretty dang cool.

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