Microsoft Common Language Runtime To Be Cross-Platform

axlrosen alerts us to a Microsoft sleeper announcement from Mix07: a version of its Common Language Runtime will be available cross-platform. The Core CLR shows up as part of the Silverlight SDK that Redmond is open sourcing. From the blog posting: "The biggest Mix '07 announcement made on opening day of this week's show was one that Microsoft didn't call out in any of its own press releases: Microsoft is making a version of its Common Language Runtime available cross-platform. The CLR is the heart of Microsoft's .Net Framework programming model. So, by association, the .Net Framework isn't just for Windows any more."

"Cross platform"

[brennanw]

Now supporting XP and Vista!

Re:Be afraid, bitches....

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Slashdot. You can be assured that someone said it.

Famous Blues Brothers quote

[flyingfsck]

"We have both kinds of music here: Country *and* Western."

Re:Cross-platform but x86 only

[kpdvx]

Silverlight 1.1 runs on Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles? Well, that is certainly worrisome.

Re:Mono?

[samkass]

Of course they have. Mono is just legitimate enough for Microsoft to say "and if you need cross-platform support, there's Mono out there, so go with .NET". But just unsupported enough so that when companies ACTUALLY go with .NET, Microsoft can say "you don't REALLY want to move off of Windows because Mono is unsupported and potentially flaky, and who knows whether we'll sue them someday."

Sadness.

[oGMo]

You say this sarcastically, but this is what Microsoft really means when they say "cross-platform": it runs on all Windows platforms. (Vista, XP, Mobile, XBOX, etc.) I'm not joking. There should be (+1, Sad, Sad World) moderation.

Re:Be afraid, bitches....

[Tickletaint]

Coming from a Cocoa background, but for quite a while now having been diligently coding Windows apps in C# on the side, I feel confident in asserting that the .NET framework is, indeed, utter shit. Oh sure, it's nicer than the Java framework, but that's a bare minimum, not an achievement. Last year .NET (C# really) finally gained partial classes (like Objective-C categories, except shitty and inflexible), but that doesn't help the brain-dead class hierarchy (the fuck is a SortedList doing with IDictionary?). Don't even get me started on the whole heap of garbage they call ADO.

In short, .NET is a framework only a Microsoft programmer could love. Jesus tittyfucking Christ, why couldn't they rip off Apple for this one? I'd almost respect them if they had.