What's the difference between monodis and ikdasm?

Question

I am using mono 3.8.0, after installation, i find there are two deassemblier programe in mono "bin" directory, "monodis" and "ikdasm"

During test, i find the generated il file is different, the generated file by "ikdasm" is same as "ildasm.exe" in MS .Net, but "monodis" have a little different case such as "ctor" -> 'ctor' with single quote, two array dimension

Answer 1

monodis is an old version, written in C that also provides a few small features useful in understanding the metadata format (see --help). ikdasm is written in C# and is probably more appropriate as a disassembler.