Microsoft seem to have learned a lot from Java in designing their new .NET Core CLR. It has gotten almost everything right:
* a small and fast CLR (JVM)
* a class library that defaults to almost nothing but primitive classes
* proper and standardized version, platform and package management (NuGet)
* open source and MIT license[0]
* a patent promise[1]
* arguably the best dev IDE available (Visual Studio) and one of the best up-and-coming dev text editors (VS Code)
* Native ORM, templating, MVC, web server so there is one way to do things
* open source middleware standard (OWIN)
* they left out, for now, attempting the hard ugly stuff like x-platform GUI
* all platforms are equal citizens, they acquired Xamarin for dev tools and release their own Docker containers.
* it's already getting good distribution (on RedHat) even tho it's only 6 months out from a 1.0 release.
Java may have missed the window for fixing some of these issues in their platform - I feel that if Android were being developed today, they'd almost certainly take .NET Core as the runtime.
I've yet to commit to using .NET Core anywhere, but from what I know about it so far it is impressive.
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/coreclr/master/PATE...
* a small and fast CLR (JVM)
* a class library that defaults to almost nothing but primitive classes
* proper and standardized version, platform and package management (NuGet)
* open source and MIT license[0]
* a patent promise[1]
* arguably the best dev IDE available (Visual Studio) and one of the best up-and-coming dev text editors (VS Code)
* Native ORM, templating, MVC, web server so there is one way to do things
* open source middleware standard (OWIN)
* they left out, for now, attempting the hard ugly stuff like x-platform GUI
* all platforms are equal citizens, they acquired Xamarin for dev tools and release their own Docker containers.
* it's already getting good distribution (on RedHat) even tho it's only 6 months out from a 1.0 release.
Java may have missed the window for fixing some of these issues in their platform - I feel that if Android were being developed today, they'd almost certainly take .NET Core as the runtime.
I've yet to commit to using .NET Core anywhere, but from what I know about it so far it is impressive.
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/coreclr/master/PATE...