&gt; .NET development no longer tied to Windows, dev with a Mac or Linux using .NET core<p>.NET core hasn&#x27;t seen an official release and there&#x27;s still quite a bit of work to be done.  Even with that, the overwhelming majority of .NET libraries don&#x27;t work on OS X or Linux and it&#x27;s going to take a significant amount of time to port just a small fraction of them.<p>.NET core might turn out to be a great cross platform solution but it&#x27;s nowhere near that right now.