&gt; This lead to CoreCLR being open sourced and Visual Studio Code being built.<p>What is it you think those to products are? They aren&#x27;t trying to reproduce anything Xamarin does.<p>CoreCLR is part of Microsoft&#x27;s &quot;cloudy&quot; strategy, they want to be on Linux micro-instances, and on Windows Server Nano. Visual Studio Code is just the absolutely minimum Microsoft has to do to make CoreCLR seem &quot;real&quot; on other platforms (a 101 UI).<p>Honestly the whole .Net open sourcing&#x2F;porting thing is a lot older than this cross-platform interest and while the two are aligned right now I highly doubt that&#x27;s what kicked it off.