Comment by wtetzner
11 years ago
One thing that's nice is that it's now open source, so as long as it remains open source, it will likely remain cross platform. Contributers that are on non-windows platforms will likely notice when something breaks on their platform, and get it fixed.
Only core components and now a stripped down IDE are open source (core is actually free software IIRC). I will only be impressed if the entire runtime stack becomes open source. Otherwise it's still a platform for DRM or other forms of lockdown.
If you're not porting a .net application to MAC or Linux, I would avoid this for quite a while still. We don't know where this is going long term.
The entire runtime stack is open source.
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
Right. Core. No Windows forms, so the only app I ever wrote for it will not work yet.
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The runtime, Core CLR is is open source with MIT and porting is underway:
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
Previously discussed @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431368 - Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64)