6 ms·

This is all very nice, but what would make me truly excited is if they released their runtime for linux ... yeah, it's just a dream. would be a lot of work I ex

by math 12y ago

This is all very nice, but what would make me truly excited is if they released their runtime for linux ... yeah, it's just a dream. would be a lot of work I expect and they wouldn't want to even if it was easy.

untog 12y ago
Well, Mono exists. At this point porting to Linux would just be duplicating a large amount of Mono.
- math 12y ago
  Yes, I use it extensively and it's good. But the Microsoft runtime is awesome. Much faster and very stable. I do a lot of number crunching (distributed on a small cluster) and don't want to use Windows in this scenario for various reasons. Mono is good enough that I choose to compromise, but MS runtime on linux would be a dream come true.
pjc50 12y ago
If they genuinely open source Roslyn, then that could happen. The tricky bit would be porting the very Windows-specific OS features (overlapped IO, System.Windows.Forms)
- UK-AL 12y ago
  It is? https://roslyn.codeplex.com https://roslyn.codeplex.com Roslyn is not the runtime, it is the compiler which emits IL code. Its different from the runtime.
rmsaksida 12y ago
This. It'd be amazing if there was an official and well supported Linux port of .NET. Just imagine having C#, F# and .NET libs available in a Linux environment and talking to Linux tools.
jbergens 12y ago
They are working on .NET Native which does some of that. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/02/announcing-net-native-preview.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/02/announcing...