Thanks for the interest, this is pretty exciting for Microsoft and .NET community in general.
If you have any questions around this feel free to shoot them at me. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Huntley Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 6:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: .NET/CLR on FreeBSD status update. First up some important differences: - Mono = LGPL - CoreCLR = MIT Xamarin are getting out of the language game and development efforts on Mono have been refocused to be implementing features/bugfixes needed for achieve .NET on all mobile platforms. The liberal licensing of CoreCLR / the .NET framework means that Xamarin can and are slowly sliding out parts in their mono implementation with the official MSFT implementation. See https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into-mono for more details. As for MSFT perspective then see https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/793#issuecomment-95955992 "CoreCLR is Microsoft's implementation of .NET, for use in its commercial products, like ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET> 5. These products are open source, but we approach them as commercial products as we always have (e.g. support, reliability). What's new is the open source community engagement (like responding to your comment [:wink:] ). We're not working on "outperforming Mono" as a goal. We have various goals around .NET Core itself. If someone concludes that CoreCLR outperforms Mono at some point, that's fine, but not a goal of its own. It is fair to say that some people using Mono now will start using CoreCLR when it matures on Linux and OS X. It is also fair to say that we expect new people to come to .NET with the increase in excitement and product choice (e.g. ASP.NET<http://ASP.NET> 5 on Linux). If they choose Mono over .NET Core, awesome! There is no competition with Mono of any kind. @migueldeicaza<https://github.com/migueldeicaza> and friends did a great job of creating and maintaining the open source .NET Runtime for well over a decade. We commend them for that. [:clap:] [:bow:] We're glad to have them as partners now that we're the newcomers in .NET OSS." On 28 April 2015 at 10:47, Jano Petras <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Will this implementation replace/deprecate mono? On Tuesday, 28 April 2015, Preet Sangha <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Thank you. This looks interesting. > > regards, > Preet, in Auckland NZ > > On 28 April 2015 at 09:10, Geoffrey Huntley > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> By now you have probably saw the news that the CLR is building successfully >> on FreeBSD. >> Well last night the port team progressed another milestone namely - IL code >> ran successfully >> in the CLR on FreeBSD. >> $ ./corerun HelloWorld.exe >> 04/27/2015 17:50:28 >> $ ./corerun HelloWorld.exe >> 04/27/2015 17:51:43 >> >> https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/801#issuecomment-96431805 >> If the CLR at this level is of interest to you, please come and join us over >> at https://gitter.im/dotnet/coreclr >> Regards, >> Geoff >
