> It always seemed to me that it was Microsoft's attempt to lock people into Windows forever. It has had first-class support for Linux and MacOS for the past f

> It always seemed to me that it was Microsoft's attempt to lock people into Windows forever. It has had first-class support for Linux and MacOS for the past five years so that certainly isn't the case these days. I actually develop C# applications on Mac and run them in production on Ubuntu, no Windows involved in the toolchain anymore.