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Could someone please explain how different this is from using Mono on Linux ? I mean internally that too would be running CoreCLR on the Unix-based system. Then

by sbose78 11y ago

Could someone please explain how different this is from using Mono on Linux ? I mean internally that too would be running CoreCLR on the Unix-based system. Then what different did these guys accomplish?

ghuntley 11y ago
Mono = LGPL and CoreCLR/.NET = MIT Mono (aka Xamarin) are getting out of the compiler/language reverse engineering game and focusing 100% on mobile. They no longer need to clean room the MSFT implementation because the MSR license as a purple-pill. Now that Microsoft has relicensed under MIT developers are arriving in droves. Advantages? .NET everywhere, SINGLE reference implementation/specification means no more bugs. edit: You can see the transformation of Xamarin -> Mobile and replacing internal components from CoreCLR over at https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into-mono https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into...
- hamiltont 11y ago
  > purple-pill What does this mean? Googling it led to interpretations that I doubt apply here... ><
  - lstamour 11y ago
    I read it as an auto-corrected typo of "poison pill" :-) http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-net-poison-pill http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-net-poison-pill This news, however, is a very positive step. Can't wait for Build next week...
    - ollyfg 11y ago
      I understood it as a halfway pill between the red pill and the blue pill from The Matrix, and subsequently got very confused. Looking at it as a typo makes a lot more sense!
- txdv 11y ago
  That transition could take a long time.
- jebblue 11y ago
  I don't know about CoreCLR but with Mono I can run my .NET WinForms programs from the early 2000's right now.
edmccard 11y ago
>what different did these guys accomplish? Instead of taking something like Mono that was pre-built to run on their system, they took the CoreClr source that did not have a working build for FreeBsd, and got it to the point that it did.

by sbose78 11y ago

ghuntley 11y ago

Mono = LGPL and CoreCLR/.NET = MIT Mono (aka Xamarin) are getting out of the compiler/language reverse engineering game and focusing 100% on mobile. They no longer need to clean room the MSFT implementation because the MSR license as a purple-pill. Now that Microsoft has relicensed under MIT developers are arriving in droves. Advantages? .NET everywhere, SINGLE reference implementation/specification means no more bugs. edit: You can see the transformation of Xamarin -> Mobile and replacing internal components from CoreCLR over at https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into-mono https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into...

hamiltont 11y ago
> purple-pill What does this mean? Googling it led to interpretations that I doubt apply here... ><
- lstamour 11y ago
  I read it as an auto-corrected typo of "poison pill" :-) http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-net-poison-pill http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-net-poison-pill This news, however, is a very positive step. Can't wait for Build next week...
  - ollyfg 11y ago
    I understood it as a halfway pill between the red pill and the blue pill from The Matrix, and subsequently got very confused. Looking at it as a typo makes a lot more sense!
txdv 11y ago
That transition could take a long time.
jebblue 11y ago
I don't know about CoreCLR but with Mono I can run my .NET WinForms programs from the early 2000's right now.

edmccard 11y ago

>what different did these guys accomplish? Instead of taking something like Mono that was pre-built to run on their system, they took the CoreClr source that did not have a working build for FreeBsd, and got it to the point that it did.