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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by wtetzner on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:53PM (#9460230)
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.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by phkahler on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:01PM (#9460319)
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.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by WDCDev on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:40PM (#9460670)
The entire runtime stack is open source.

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by phkahler on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:08PM (#9461811)
Right. Core. No Windows forms, so the only app I ever wrote for it will not work yet.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by pbgodwin on Thursday April 30, 2015 @03:37AM (#9463748)
Windows Forms is only a subset of the framework. I don't think exposing Windows Forms as an open source GUI stack would be worth while. It's old and clunky compared to WPF and XAML.

Even without a open source GUI stack the open source .Net Runtime and Framework provide value to .Net developers like myself who enjoy C# (and the F# lovers too!) to develop on Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X with much less pain than in the past. Not fitting each and every scenario doesn't diminish its significance.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by walkon on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:42PM (#9460690)
The runtime, Core CLR is is open source with MIT and porting is underway:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

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Re:Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac by ghuntley on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @05:05PM (#9461779)
Previously discussed @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431368 - Microsoft .NET CoreCLR is now running on FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64)
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