XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com   
      
   On 1/5/26 11:50, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
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   >> On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:41:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
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   >>> 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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   >      Install .NET on Linux   
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   C# is a lovely language, but isn't different enough from Java to make it   
   worthwhile doing something with much less online support when using Linux.   
      
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