[kwlug-disc] ASP.NET 5 for Linux?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I am not sure what to make of it.

Could be admission that the tech world has changed a lot and they are
no longer dominant, with the proliferation of Linux in the server
market, and Apple/Android in the mobile market.

Could be a desperate move trying to look nice and appeal to some who
are considering moving to a Linux stack (Java, ...)

I can't think of how this would fit their old pattern of Embrace,
Extend, Extinguish. They can't do that anymore across the board given
the above.

C# is actually a decent language. They learned from forking Java, and
fixed some of Java's misgivings in C#. They build .NET to be a
bytecode like JVM. The major shortcoming of .NET is that it was
Windows only. Perhaps they are trying to fix that. Now, can they
really do that? With all the APIs that call Windows specific stuff?
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