.NET framework ported to NetBSD
As a .NET developer, and lover of all things C#, I couldn&#x27;t be more happy.  There&#x27;s always been that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I&#x27;m pigeonholed with a language I can&#x27;t easily use on other platforms (Mono&#x27;s been around for a while and I&#x27;ve used it but I ran into a variety of problems the last time I targeted it[1]).<p>&quot;Officially&quot; supporting alternative platforms gives me the opportunity to write code in a language I prefer for the handful of Linux boxen I&#x27;ve had here.  I&#x27;m looking forward to poking around with this in NetBSD.  I&#x27;ve had a box doing virtually nothing here for a while running an old version -- guess it&#x27;s time to upgrade!<p>The thing that still makes me hang on to other languages is uptake.  I haven&#x27;t looked in a little while, but back when Mono was &quot;it&quot;, the number of applications available outside of Windows was pretty small.  Basing an application on Mono tended to come with grief lobbed at the developer[2].  Has any of that changed or shown signs of changing since CoreCLR was released?<p>[1] I&#x27;ll be the first to admit that these problems had workarounds I wasn&#x27;t familiar with at the time and though I had no similar problems with a handful of CoreCLR apps I&#x27;ve written, I was far more researched at my second attempt and would have probably been successful with either had I bothered to try.<p>[2] I tried to find examples - my memory is not serving me well but I thought a component of OpenSUSE or something along those lines was written targeting Mono and was later scrapped for another technology due to weak community support.  The best example of complaints I could find is <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxuser.co.uk&#x2F;features&#x2F;mono-a-gratuitous-risk-the-free-software-column" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxuser.co.uk&#x2F;features&#x2F;mono-a-gratuitous-risk-t...</a>