You may be looking at it from the wrong perspective. .NET is the platform of choice for nearly all Windows applications. A large number of developers/companies

You may be looking at it from the wrong perspective. .NET is the platform of choice for nearly all Windows applications. A large number of developers/companies are heavily invested in the platform. Many of us like and use Linux, but wish we could leverage our experience with .NET from our day jobs on Linux. This isn't about bringing .NET to Linux for me, it's about bringing Linux to .NET. Now I can deploy with containers. Now I can better contribute to the Linux ecosystem. Now I can push for Linux deployments at work. I'm very happy with this development, but I doubt it will affect many existing Linux developers who aren't already using .NET. That said, having heavily used Java (6 or 7?), C# was a breath of fresh air (without going back to the headaches of C++). Java didn't even have proper anonymous functions at the time, so getting basic type inference, expression trees, a powerful reflection capability, and avoiding type erasure was a great improvement.