You do realise that Core is a complete rewrite of .net, which is platform independent? (Edit: Designed from the ground up to be 100% platform independent) To s

You do realise that Core is a complete rewrite of .net, which is platform independent? (Edit: Designed from the ground up to be 100% platform independent) To start Core from 1.0 is (as such) entirely appropriate considering the scope of the project.