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If programming languages were weapons. Old but gold. (feddit.it)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hosted my personal site using Mono over 10 years ago now and it mostly worked well. I contributed some code to Mono to fix a few edge cases where their behaviour deviated slightly from Microsoft's.

Of course, I couldn't actually look at Microsoft's shared source code when doing that, so I had to just observe its outputs. At the time, Mono code had to all be clean-room implementations, since Microsoft's shared source program, where they released parts of the .NET Framework 4.x source code publicly, had a very restrictive license that didn't permit reuse (it wasn't open-source). Even just looking at the code meant you couldn't contribute to Mono.

I was very happy when .NET Core was announced and switched to a beta of 1.0 as soon as I could.