NET Is Now Open Source, Available with Linux and Mac OS X Support

On November 12, 2014 Microsoft decides to open source .NET. .Net is one of the reputed software framework companies that runs on Windows and release it on GitHub. Additionally, Microsoft is also targeting Mac OS X and Linux by taking it to .NET cross-platform. If we have looking at the next release, we come to know that Microsoft decides to open source entire .NET server stack, from ASP.NET 5 to the Base Class Libraries and the Common Language Runtime.

The company enables .Net developers to develop cloud application on different platforms. It is considered as the promising future support of the .NET Core server runtime and framework for Linux and Mac. The Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft, S. Somasegar explained that open sourcing .NET will help to “get more developers onto the platform” as well as “let existing .NET developers target more users.” It is considered to be a long term bet. Moreover, he also hinted that taking .NET cross-platform would help the company with extra platform and tools vendors for many industries and thus, it results in to the growth in .NET ecosystem.

Microsoft is being supported and implemented by the move however, the company had help. Developers can see the latest .NET version as open source in close collaboration with the Mono project and community. Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework for context. The main aim of Microsoft will be part of the .NET Foundation” will be provided by the implementation, said Microsoft.

Those people, who have been reading in surprise now, can find point where a lightbulb should go on above your head. It was open sourcing 24 of its .NET libraries and related technologies, announced by Microsoft at its Build conference in April. That is when it created the .NET Foundation, which is a group for managing its open source .NET components.

Following Java

We all know that .NET is one of the primary competitors to JAVA among developers and businesses building websites and other large online services. Most of the companies, who are relying on Microsoft software, are using it. It is researched that more than 1.8 billion times, .NET was installed over that last but Java is still more popular tool and many users consider it more powerful.

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