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Re:Introducing .NET IL Linker by int_19h on Thursday August 31, 2017 @01:53AM (#15138406)
It certainly would. The reach of .NET was artificially restricted in many respects by making it a component of Windows. Mono provided the ability to just ship the runtime alongside the app, but Mono was also not "enterprise grade"; and of course there were always the missing bits and pieces, especially on the desktop front where such deployment made most sense.

It took a Microsoft that understood open source and non-Windows platforms, and was serious about it, to ultimately get us to the point where .NET Core could be a thing.

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Re:Introducing .NET IL Linker by pjmlp on Thursday August 31, 2017 @02:28AM (#15138527)
Until .NET Core provides support for many of the .NET Framework APIs still lacking from .NET Standard 2.0, many companies won't consider it "enterprise grade".

Examples on our case, WPF, WCF, ODP.NET drivers for ADO.NET.

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Re:Introducing .NET IL Linker by svick on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:25PM (#15152498)
I think .Net Core will never include WPF.

As far as I know, there are not plans for cross-platform GUI on .Net Core. And WPF is pretty much a dead technology.

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