Microsoft releases .NET Core preview for Mac and Linux

At its Build 2015 developer conference , Microsoft took the primary step toward a cross-platform version of .NET, the company’s code framework that primarily runs on Windows: the corporate has discharged a preview of the .NET Core runtime distribution for mack and UNIX.

Today’s preview is that the 1st public version of “a answer that we predict goes to be exciting to a broad set of developers,” S. Somasegar, company vice chairman of the developer division at Microsoft, told VentureBeat. “This is one amongst the foremost progressive things that we’ve done.”

Microsoft conjointly declared the provision of the total .NET Framework four.6 RC and also the .NET Core five Beta four. nonetheless the larger story is that Microsoft is finally delivering on its vision to let developers build cloud applications on multiple platforms exploitation .NET. While .NET Core OS X and UNIX is enforced and supported by Microsoft, it's developed underneath Associate in Nursing ASCII text file license.

In Nov, Microsoft not solely declared plans to ASCII text file .NET, however conjointly to require .NET cross-platform, targeting each mack and UNIX. Specifically, Microsoft secure future mack and UNIX support within the .NET Core server runtime and framework.

At the time, Somasegar hinted that taking .NET cross-platform would facilitate the corporate partner with further platform and tools vendors across the trade and eventually grow the .NET system. And Microsoft has help: The ASCII text file work is being worn out shut collaboration with the Mono project and community, that have long been performing on creating it potential to run Microsoft .NET applications cross-platform.

Somasegar told VentureBeat that over the past five months, the two groups have exchanged a “tremendous amount” of ideas and code. So we asked the obvious: Why bother developing two different implementations?

“If you talk to the key stewards of the Mono community, I think they would love for us to work together as opposed to work on two independent things,” Somasegar said. He added that Microsoft wants to see where it might be able to converge with Mono’s work, but in the meantime, Somasegar reiterated: “We are committed to .NET development in open source, and we are committed to taking .NET cross-platform.”

“I’m a patient guy, so I’m willing to wait.”

Regardless of what happens with Mono, developers will currently install and take a look at the .NET Core support for mack and UNIX. Microsoft conjointly hopes they could become involved within the associated ASCII text file project.