.NET Core is Boiling the Ocean
Aaron Stannard (via Hacker News and Reddit):
.NET Core is about decoupling .NET from Windows. Allowing it to run in non-Windows environments without having to install a giant 400mb set of binaries.
This will allow .NET to run in containers on Linux and lots of other places it can’t today and presents a very exciting opportunity for those of us in the server-side .NET development space to start taking advantage of modern DevOps and deployment tools.
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I had originally imagined that .NET Core would be “released” in a stable form this year, 2016.
Now I no longer have any certainty with anything in regard to .NET Core, because the roadmap has been changing rapidly.
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I’m left with the impression that .NET Core is trying to do everything at once: static linking, new tooling, support for 3D games, web applications, cross-platform desktop applications, browser-based apps, and anything else that could be aptly labeled under the masthead of “panacea for .NET developers.”
