What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It's got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?
Open sourcing .Net will do squat to client applications if Microsoft keeps the client-side libraries and WPF closed source. And that is exactly what they are doing; They are just targeting the web and mobile market in a bid to gain some share in these two markets after the lost decade under Ballmer. You may argue that is a first step. But if that is the case, I'll not buy your prediction. Not for one minute I think Microsoft is interested in giving to the open source community the responsibility of accessing and developing the framework most responsible for the direction the operating systems since Vista have taken, as well as permitting for one moment that their entire office and server divisions become available for Linux ports.
Another thing to keep in mind is whether the current open source version of .Net Core will be a fork or, instead Microsoft's main development branch. I don't do web or mobile based development, so forgive me for not having tried to search for an answer before. But if this whole thing ends being a fork of Microsoft main branch of development, then frankly the whole idea of an open source .Net is already dead before it started.
Last edited by Mario F.; 10-01-2015 at 02:03 PM.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.