Re: : Microsoft open sources some of .net

mono is .net on Linux, works great, been using it for high level business
apps for years.
There is no WFP however, except of part of wfp in silverlight.

MS is releasing a compiler soon  that is supposed to put c# to C, so c# can
make its way into some other segments (i.e. kernel dev., etc).

What it means for linux is basically nothing to useful unless they
opensource wpf and similar, at least that is what I would want to see.

Ximians IDE and compiler is just the opensource MonoDevelop but for mobile
dev. on android and ios you have
to buy their other utilities, but if you are not doing android or ios,
unless you need support its just MonoDevelop.


-tl


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:31 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> wrote:

> <
> http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-open-sourcing-of-net-the-back-story-7000028109/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61
> >
> <http://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-3-year-journey-to-an-open-source-net/
> >
>
> I don't know what to make of the move.  Partly because I don't touch that
> world.
>
> Miguel de Icaza was there for the announcement.  He's even closer to
> becoming a Microsoft employee :-)  Ximian's moral successor Xamarin is
> involved.
>
> The open sourcing of the C# and VB compilers might undercut Xamarin's own
> compiler.
>
> Isn't .net left out of the new world formerly known as Metro?  Again, an
> area where I have no knowledge.  Microsoft says that they are not
> abandoning .net.  Windows developers would probably be livid after they
> got burned by the intro of .net, killing their old ecosystem.
>
> So: does this mean anything at all for Linux?  Of course we don't have a
> really coherent equivalent to .NET (I'm not saying that we should).
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