I'm sure many of you have heard about this by now.
Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 - Somasegar's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Hopefully, this will put an end to all the Turbo C++ crap that we see around here. I suspect that it's too much to hope for, but a guy can dream.
What are your thoughts?