Official .NET release for Linux and Mac

[Merec]

Microsoft official released the new .NET Core 2015, which has full and native support for Linux an Mac. Running DOL on a Linux-Server without using Mono might be possible then! Great news!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/ ... -2015.aspx
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

[HunabKu]

Great news! But will he perform as well as Mono, which develops for years ?

[Leodagan]

From what I read all this is not ready for distribution yet...

You still need to build some libraries with Windows before copying to Linux, you still need mono to compile C# code and retrieve some specific nuget packages !

But this is definitely going in the right direction, somehow a reply to Java hotspot (JVM) which is now an open source project.

I really want to run some test with CoreCLR to compare it to Mono

[Leodagan]

Update :

I made some tries to binary CoreClr provided as "DNX SDK", I'm not sure if this is really the way meant to use it as mono replacement...

I couldn't achieve to run DOLServer.exe, the errors really lacks explanation, and there is very few help available for now, maybe some troubles with dependencies, if anyone has better results please let me know

[HunabKu]

Visual Studio Code is out but is just a text editor with syntax coloration like notepad++ or geany

[Graveen]

Honestly if it simply adds the few missing libraries that are hard to port to Mono, this would be nice

[Leodagan]

The missing libraries from Mono are mostly GUI oriented libs...

For me GUI is not an area needed to improve DOLServer, and secondly I'd rather use Web oriented GUI than compiled binary libs, allowing for any system to use its favorite browser and giving the opportunity to tune results with enhanced CSS or specific script engine (like greasemonkey)

[Graveen]

I was rather thinking about perfcounters. But GUI related are nices for a compatibility issue - not specifically DOL-related. The full framework is something mandatory for claiming .NET is a cross-platform (although Mono was a big step): it would bring support from microsoft and should allows famous 3rd tools (mainly controls designed in .NET for .NET) to possibly work or being ported - a big step forward imho.