> (btw, I still don't get why it's called .NET, and I don't know if assemblies are native code or bytecode wrapped in the same binary format as .exe, where is t

> (btw, I still don't get why it's called .NET, and I don't know if assemblies are native code or bytecode wrapped in the same binary format as .exe, where is the ".NET for hardcore open source Linux nerds" blog post?) .NET can now do either one - you can ship PE bytecode and require the dotnet runtime, which works in practice similar to e.g. Python or Ruby (you run `dotnet ./myapp.dll`), or you can precompile it into a single platform-specific binary that is just a native code app, similar to Go's static binaries.