> Microsoft was for years actively hostile toward attempts to run .NET programs on platforms other than Windows It's been 10 years. Even before that, no action

> Microsoft was for years actively hostile toward attempts to run .NET programs on platforms other than Windows It's been 10 years. Even before that, no action was ever taken against Mono nor any restriction put or anything else. FWIW Swift shares a similar story, except Apple started to care only quite recently about it working anywhere else beyond their platforms. Oh, and by the way, you need to look at these metrics: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry Maybe take off the conspiracy hat? > There are too many other great choices with broad platform and community support :) No, thanks, I'm good. You know why I stayed in .NET land and didn't switch to, say, Go? It's not that it's so good, it's because most alternatives are so bad in one or another area (often many at the same time).