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For a very long time .Net was Windows only. That only changed after Balmer was gone and Satya came in.
by dtech 7y ago
For a very long time .Net was Windows only. That only changed after Balmer was gone and Satya came in.
- ygra 7y agoSome cross-platform considerations have been built into it from the start, though. And there has been an official open-source implementation on a non-Windows platform. Perhaps more to show that it's possible than as an actual usable artifact, but it was there.
- kevingadd 7y agoI think describing Mono as Official is a bit of a reach. AFAIK they benefited from the patent promise but that was about it until the acquisition. If you mean .NET Core as official open source, that's true, but it's a relatively recent thing.
- ygra 7y agoThere was Rotor on FreeBSD. Probably more a proof of concept, but it was there.
- tracker1 7y agoMono existed from very early on with .Net and the core was pretty compatible. I think when MS bought Xamarin, it finally got the attention it deserved, and really did go to help .Net Core take form.
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