It is an open source project, if they don't release it they cannot start receiving community feedback, patch sets, and bugs. Which means a lot of stuff still wo

It is an open source project, if they don't release it they cannot start receiving community feedback, patch sets, and bugs. Which means a lot of stuff still won't be found until it is released, no matter when that is. .Net Core is definitely half baked but it is a pretty ambitious undertaking. They're completely re-developing .Net from the ground up to be cross platform, no small task.