CoreCLR is now open source

I don't think they are going to open-source legacy stuff that they want people to forget. .Net, ASP.NET, CLR -- all of it is technology they want to keep.

Re: CoreCLR is now open source

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Post by benreic » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 6:25 PM UTC

Quick link to what I think is the most interesting class in the CLR:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/mscorlib/s...

Re: CoreCLR is now open source

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Post by sz4kerto » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 6:28 PM UTC

Interesting commit:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/commit/90ef39bc3c9886e7967...

"This change fixes a potential problem in unwinding on Linux"

Re: CoreCLR is now open source

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Post by mwcampbell » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

frik wrote: post #3

Next step, WinForms

I think it would be more interesting and useful to have the source for WPF, given that WPF is an actual GUI toolkit implementing its own widgets, whereas WinForms is basically just a wrapper around Win32.

Re: CoreCLR is now open source

#10

Post by unknownian » Tue, Feb 03, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

yellowapple wrote: post #4

MIT-licensed, even.

I wonder why they would do this. In fact, I don't see the benefit of MIT over Apache except for compatibility with GPLv2. But I'm definitely not an expert, if someone would want to explain.