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Where 'nice things' is defined as being open-source, having open-source ecosystem of developer tools etc.
This isn't so much the beginning (as good stuff has been happening for a couple of years now) but it's a huge step.
Thankyou Microsoft.
That's incredible!
I 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).
Why would you only be convinced if the IDE runs on both platforms. You realize that the IDE and the CLR/Runtime are two different things right?
The next decade will be interesting.
Does this mean that Mono will no longer be necessary for cross-platform C# use?
No mention of which license they are using?
I can't find anything but if I remember well almost all other open source project by microsoft are under apache2