Posted on 05/08/2015 2:10:24 PM PDT by dayglored
Last November, Microsoft said that it would bring some of the core features of its .NET platform — which has traditionally been Windows-only — to Linux and Mac. Today, at its Build developer conference, the company announced its first full preview of the .NET Core runtime for Linux and Mac OS X.
In addition, Microsoft is making the release candidate of the full .NET framework for Windows available to developers today [April 29, 2015].
The highlight here, though, is obviously the release of .NET Core for platforms other than Windows. As Microsoft VP of its developer division S. “Soma” Somasegar told me earlier this week, the company now aims to meet developers where they are — instead of necessarily making them use Windows — and .NET Core is clearly part of this move.
Microsoft says it is taking .NET cross-platform in order to build and leverage a bigger ecosystem for it. As the company also noted shortly after the original announcement, it decided that, to take .NET cross-platform, it had to do so as an open source project. To shepherd it going forward, Microsoft also launched the .NET Foundation last year.
While it’s still somewhat of a shock for some to see Microsoft active in the open-source world, it’s worth remembering that that the company has made quite a few contributions to open source projects lately.
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Right now, I think the only thing that stands threatened is mono.
I think the only value it has is to give the ability to port legacy .NET apps to non-Windows servers without having to rewrite it.
But at least now MS can sell .NET as not forcing you into vendor lock-in.
Weren't you drooling over the prospect of having PowerShell sessions on your Linux boxes?
http://robnapier.net/xcode-visual-studio
So to VS guys I say: Give XCode a chance. It’s better than you think once you are used to Mac interfaces and if you’re working on Cocoa apps (which XCode is highly optimized for). To XCode guys I say: until you’ve used VS for a while, don’t assume that XCode has all the features it should. In the programming editor world, XCode is still kind of primitive.
Yeah; you probably saw the comment from me on Mono that posted a minute before yours.
The ever-present danger when writing something "compatible for another platform" is that the writer/owner of the original will eventually see the light you wish they'd seen in the first place.
There's also the danger with open-source projects that the owner will eventually get a girlfriend.
LOL!
Sadly true...
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Agreed. I have no need of .net crap. I’m unaware of anything that it brings to the table that any one of several frameworks available for linux already provide quite well. If the bastards at MS want to do something really useful, they’ll open up the protocols for Lync so other clients can easily talk to it.
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