You can. Look at .NET Core. It's the new much slimmer runtime that works on OS X, Linux and Windows (and ARM, etc). Roslyn is the next gen first-class .NET co

You can. Look at .NET Core. It's the new much slimmer runtime that works on OS X, Linux and Windows (and ARM, etc). Roslyn is the next gen first-class .NET compiler, the same one used in the upcoming visual studio. And it's just as powerful on other platforms.