.NET Goes Open Sources and is Coming to Mac OSX and Linux
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This is huge news in the development world. Microsoft's legendary .NET framework has been open sourced! This far more than a decade after the Mono project attempted to do just this. .NET will be coming to Mac and Linux at some point. This will breath a whole new life into C# for sure and definitely puts Java on a strong defensive stance. If you can run .NET on Linux you can avoid many Java headaches while getting many of its benefits.
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Just stumbled on another article, this one from InfoWorld...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2846450/microsoft-net/microsoft-open-sources-server-side-net-launches-visual-studio-2015-preview.html -
That is freaking awesome. That is a major change in Microsoft's strategy and that is going to impact so many things. C# and F# will really become first class languages in that case, not languages relegated to the Microsoft-only niche market. Those languages are really great and full of awesome development features. It was always the licensing problems that held them back.
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I suspect that the real reason for this was to pave the way for ASP.NET containers to be used for PaaS deployments. This fundamentally changes the value proposition around Microsoft's development ecosystem.
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MS is totally vesting in "Cloud First"
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And they are investing in open source heavily too. Cloud computing and open source make so much sense together. It all makes sense.
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This is a case where the consumers really win too. It's great news for everyone.
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They really do. I am looking forward to having a really good reason to use F# now!!
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Oooh not having the use Mono on Linux... this is going to be good.
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@coliver said:
Oooh not having the use Mono on Linux... this is going to be good.
Yeah, freaking huge!
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This is awesome! Finally dropping Java on a ton of applications that are Linux based will be freaking epic!
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Apparently some counterpoint has come out...
