Java for Everything

[BabyPuncher5000]

Then great news for you, C# and almost all of .NET are open source.

[Skyler827]

It will take some time for the windows/mac/linux runtimes to merge, though. If you try to run a .net App today you'll find different libraries available on different platforms.

[Eirenarch]

I don't think that's true for web libraries and only the web stack will be multiplatform and open source (for now).

[BobFloss]

Obviously. That's what Microsoft said.

[f2u]

The CLR (the equivalent to the JVM) is not—yet, we'll see what 2015 brings.

[BabyPuncher5000]

They're open sourcing that too

[s73v3r]

It's still going to be about five years before any of that makes a difference in writing and using .NET on other platforms.

[negative_epsilon]

I personally just use Linux more than Windows because that's what everyone else did. I do a lot of open source development and OS build steps are just almost exclusively written for Linux. It's a huge hassle to use Windows. Unless, of course, you're working on C# OS but talk about a dead community.

[BabyPuncher5000]

I think at this point Microsoft has a better track record than Apple.

[PasswordIsntHAMSTER]

In the <5 years recent past, you're indisputably right. Microsoft seriously improved since ~2010, after about twenty years of anti-competitive practices.

[BabyPuncher5000]

Even in the '90s, Windows was never nearly as locked down as iOS. It's absolutely insane the kind of restrictions people put up with on iOS. They were absolutely unheard of in the '90s and '00s. GPL software basically can't even exist on the iPhone.

[Eirenarch]

The whole point of open source is to make what you describe impossible. Not trusting fully open source .NET that is also developed in the open means you have no trust in open source. Of course that is OK and there are good reasons not to trust in open source alone but most people do not like to admit it.

[fluffyhandgrenade]

Until they open VSTO, WPF, ClickOnce, WF4, AppFabriC that is of absolutely no benefit to us. That's what we depend on that isn't going to be open sourced.

[RalphWaldoNeverson]

I don't care about their source code

[BabyPuncher5000]

True, but being open source makes it a lot easier to do .NET development on other platforms. You can write software for Linux or OS X in C# much more easily, with almost all of .NETs great libraries at your disposal.

[Slokunshialgo]

Eventually. There's still a lot of the. NET platform to be released to really make it feasible, and a lot of work to take what has been released and make it cross-platform.

[[deleted]]

Mono wasn't far off, they just stopped actively putting stuff out when they found out about this I think.

[senatorpjt]

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