XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:41:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   > Does C# qualify as a Microsoft proprietary language? Or are there   
   > implementations on OSes other than Windows (and compilers, either   
   > open source or available from other vendors)?   
      
   The only implementation I’m aware of is Microsoft’s one built on top   
   of Dotnet.   
      
   Dotnet itself is supposedly open-source and portable to some degree   
   now. There are reports of it running on Linux.   
      
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