Does Mono officially support Nintendo Switch?

[Fab]

I’ve saw that there are MonoGame games running on Nintendo Switch but on Mono’s supported platforms page it doesn’t list Nintendo Switch:
https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/supported-platforms/

I’m just trying to get my head around how Mono is used. Did they make a compiler that runs on the switch? Or is it a MonoGame dev that has got it working another way? Or has Nintendo already included Mono?

[Kimimaru]

I’ve never worked with consoles, but to my knowledge, .NET IL is passed through BRUTE to generate native code for the Switch. Many consoles do not have a .NET or Mono runtime available.

EDIT: If you’re asking specifically about MonoGame, then yes it does; several games have been developed with it for Switch.

[Benjamin_W]

This thread seems to indicate that it does

Indie brawler Clan N coming to PS4,Xbox One,Nintendo Switch,Steam and Windows10!

Thanks a lot for all your nice words! @Benjamin_W The game is still being developed so porting to consoles still didn’t start but will be soon. Though, I’m sure I won’t be able to answer your question due to signed NDAs with the platform owners. @Jjagg Thanks a lot for you nice words, means a lot! It has been announced pretty recently, although it has a history way back to 2014. Our twitter account is https://twitter.com/Creamative_ Özden

[Ozden79]

What @Kimimaru has said

[harry-cpp]

@Kimimaru

I’ve never worked with consoles, but to my knowledge, .NET IL is passed through BRUTE to generate native code for the Switch. Many consoles do not have a .NET or Mono runtime available.

Yes, consoles don’t support JIT compilation and require stuff to be AOT compiled (same as Apple devices).

[procfxgen]

Do you think native compilation with NetCore and CoreRT could work on consoles ?