Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
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Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
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Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#2I realize there is much yet to do (hand assembled bytes?!) but it's impressive to see this building and running already.
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#3If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#4If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
> without crazy licensing fees as with Mono
Are you confusing Mono for Xamarin?
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#5If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
Xamarin For Android and iOS only have "crazy" licensing fees IF you want the professional editions... The Starter edition is free, and their Indie edition is $25 per month: https://store.xamarin.com/.
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#6If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
> without crazy licensing fees as with Mono Are you confusing Mono for Xamarin?
Mono is the framework (like .Net) and Xamarin is the tooling (like Visual Studio). Framework is free (essentially) and the tooling is like VS (starter is free, pro is not so free but has more tools)
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#7If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
Xamarin For Android and iOS only have "crazy" licensing fees IF you want the professional editions... The Starter edition is free, and their Indie edition is $25 per month: https://store.xamarin.com/ .
Yeah, the pricing improved - but essentially, it is impossible to create the same exe for iOS using the open sourced Mono version because of the way in which the runtime is licensed (strict LGPL.) No static linking, so one must buy a commercial Mono license, which would not be the case for this solution.
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#8If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
> without crazy licensing fees as with Mono Are you confusing Mono for Xamarin?
No - Mono has crazy licensing restrictions and massive licensing costs for statically linking their framework. Xamarin offer a better option, but there is no "free" alternative using C#, nor could you create one with the Mono framework. The CoreCLR does have the possibility to get around this as the code required for creating a solution is not licensed in the same way. Xamarin's entire business model revolves around the fact that static linking is not allowed using the Mono Framework as a basis.
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#9i wonder if other languages can start targeting the CLR, and have a competing cross platform runtime to java that's got a big name behind it.
Re: Building and Running .NET’s CoreCLR on OS X
#10I really like how things are going forward. Being a .NET developer since 2004 and a Mac user since 2008 I can't wait to use my beloved tooling finally in production on Linux (and on OS X for development).