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Never too late for them to make a go for it, even today. But, to avoid alienating their huge existing developer community, they would first do well to get behi
by j1vms 8y ago
Never too late for them to make a go for it, even today.
But, to avoid alienating their huge existing developer community, they would first do well to get behind Mono [0] and maybe even, make it official (edit: Mono is "Sponsored by Microsoft", so already quite official indeed). In fact, as of 2014, there have been very promising signs in that direction. [1]
[0] https://www.mono-project.com/ https://www.mono-project.com/
[1] https://opensource.com/business/14/11/microsoft-dot-net-empower-open-source-communities https://opensource.com/business/14/11/microsoft-dot-net-empo...
- daeken 8y agoMono isn't sponsored by Microsoft; they bought it. They also publish an insane number of things completely open source, developing them in the open. .NET Core being a huge one, but ASP.NET, VSCode, ChakraCore, TypeScript, and so many others. There are 2181 repositories in the MS Github account.
- geofft 8y agoMicrosoft acquired Xamarin, the corporate sponsors of Mono, in 2016.