Microsoft open sourcing .NET and bringing it to Linux+OS X

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Microsoft is going to open source .NET, and will be bringing it to Linux and OS X.
Not just that, from the looks of it, they'll be using a - the MIT - Free software license too.
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Here is the announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... ource.aspx
And also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... r-net.aspx
And here is the source: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet -- actually just some links to other GitHub projects that contain the actual sources.
And here: http://referencesource.microsoft.com

By the way, it was posted only a few hours ago. How did you find it so fast?
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Finding it fast; probably just looks that way because of time zones settings/differences.

I've looked a bit more into Microsoft's announcement and people's reactions, and it seems this is only about the server-side .NET core stack.
No GUI components or whatever. I know too little about it all to have a real opinion, but it still seems like interesting news.
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Good news, but there is Mono, that is bigger and have been updated with the net core + additions...
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Norbert wrote: Finding it fast; probably just looks that way because of time zones settings/differences.
When I posted that, the main page of their blog said "2 hours ago". Now it says "22 hours ago".
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Very interesting, its the first step
Mono is a super project the little problem was xamarin it own the commercial license for iOS Mac and Android...
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.NET Core Runtime (CoreCLR) is now also open source, MIT license.
Info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... ource.aspx
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It looks like the next Microsoft Visual Studio will be able to export to non-Windows platforms.
"Build for iOS, Android, Windows devices, Windows Server or Linux"
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Related:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archi ... nload.aspx
"Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download"
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Notepad now supports Unix(-like) newlines:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/comman ... n-notepad/
It's weird that this took so long. In particular if, according to their own words, it was "a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community". I remember running into this myself when I was a young child, maybe 25 years ago. I had to use WordPad, which had its own problems (IIRC, among other things, back in the day, it launched too slowly).
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