I’m about to start a new job working with C#/.NET and will try to practice before I start. How much of a pain is it to do on Linux?

  • dinomug
    8·
    3 years ago

    Mono is the best open source free/libre??🤔 implementation of DotNet and CLI specification out there, it’s officially sponsored by M$. DotNet/C# it’s a great technology/platform BUT mostly of its ecosystem is M$/🍎 dependent, and therefore tends to work with it in proprietary environments 😢.

          • dinomug
            3·
            3 years ago

            Horrible 😨 . Surprising that the community of its developers accepts this. The Open Source Initiative has done a great job brainwashing 🧠 .

          • Bilb!
            2·
            3 years ago

            https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1930 Here’s more info about the bootstrapping problem if anyone is interested.

            The sequence of commits you’d have to build to get from one to the the other might be prohibitively long, and AFAIK nobody is tracking this. Fortunately we avoid using floating versions in our repos (we commit updated pinned versions into the repo source), so it should be traceable. But I don’t think we have tooling to do that tracing.

            It sounds like it might be theoretically possible, but unproven and not at all practical in the current scenario.