This is a huge amount of tech resource. Don't know if it will actually bring to something working on the other platforms, but for sure it will help projects like Mono which deserved a little help.
Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
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Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
#42The key points seem to be:
"Available Wednesday, Visual Studio Community 2013 is a free, fully featured edition of Visual Studio including full extensibility."
So, it sounds like this will replace the Express edition and let you install extensions like you can in the Pro version.
"Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015: build for any device - Built from the ground up with support for iOS, Android and Windows, Visual Studio 2015 Preview makes it easier for developers to build applications and services for any device, on any platform."
It almost sounds like you're going to be able to run VS2015 on different platforms, but I doubt it. Maybe you'll run the web version of VS2015 to develop from Mac/Linux?
"To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin announced a new streamlined experience for installing Xamarin from Visual Studio, as well as announced the addition of Visual Studio support to its free offering Xamarin Starter Edition — available later in the year. "
This is very interesting - .NET is going fully cross platform but they haven't bought Xamarin...are they planning on competing while keeping their frenemies close or something else?
Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
#43Wow, writing in C# for Mac, that's almost like heaven.
Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
#44Loving this. Recently started working on a project with my brother who loves MS .NET stack and I have no experience in it. I was really skeptic due to the reputation MS has of being closed source and license heavy.
I could not have chosen a better time hopefully!!
Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open-sourcing .NET doesn't magically make it work on other platforms (a not-insignificant chunk is Win32-specific, for example). But it certainly makes the Mono team's job easier.
They say open source, but not which license they're going to use. It may not be possible to integrate with anything in practice, or as free as developers would like it to be.
It would pretty dumb of them to take this step and then pick a license which wasn't permissive enough to make it happen. Plus, given that they mention they're working with the Mono team on this, I'm sure they're going to get good advice.
Re: Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
#46Someone somewhere is spinning at mach 1 in his grave..
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#47What happens to Xamarin business model now?
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#48I just want to add my $.02. It's about fucking time. They should have done this 15 years ago.
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#49I want to believe this, but I just don't. .NET is so much more than just the core libraries. There will be a long time until it's on the same level as Java. I hope Microsoft proves me wrong, of course (C# is an awesome language, F# is not bad either), but I will believe this when I see a distribution of Visual Studio running both on Mac/Linux and on Windows (i.e. the same executable, same as Java).
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#50This is epic. Peter Thiel was right about creative Monopoly.
The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella has totally changed the direction of Microsoft in just a few months. They had one of the best and rock solid development platforms and research division, and loyal customers. The new Azure cloud (Online + On Premise) along with the opening of .Net will change the playing field.
I'm sure this is a great new for us developers. The change to work on one of the best runtimes, on a platform of our choice and on one of the best programming environments.
Great job Microsoft!