Microsoft .NET Core 2.0 Preview Brings Better Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft .NET Core 2.0 Preview Brings Better Linux Support

Microsoft used its Build 2017 conference for rolling out the first public preview of .NET Core 2.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=dotNet-2.0-Linux-Improvement

[uid313]

The .NET Framework and the .NET Core Framework are amazing, I love it!
I love coding in C# on the .NET framework.

I would love to see GObject Introspection (GI) bindings for .NET Core to be able to utilize GTK+, GDK and GLib on the .NET stack.

[Kushan]

In before people turn "better linux support" into Microsoft somehow being evil.

(20 points to the first person to mention Embrace, Extend, Extinguish).

[dragon321]

Still no Visual Studio (full IDE, not that funny VS Code) on Linux. Writing on Windows for Linux? Thanks, but no.

[unixfan2001]

Still no Visual Studio (full IDE, not that funny VS Code) on Linux. Writing on Windows for Linux? Thanks, but no.

Yea. No. Pass.

Visual Studio "proper" is a horrible IDE. Bloated, slow, resource hungry.
I take Visual Studio Code over that behemoth every day of the week.

[dragon321]

Yea. No. Pass.

Visual Studio "proper" is a horrible IDE. Bloated, slow, resource hungry.
I take Visual Studio Code over that behemoth every day of the week.

You're right, but I was talking about .Net development. Linux has good IDE's for C++, Java and other languages, but for C# or .Net there are little problems with it.

[uid313]

Still no Visual Studio (full IDE, not that funny VS Code) on Linux. Writing on Windows for Linux? Thanks, but no.

Probably still better than any other text editor / IDE on Linux.

With VS Code things just work. In Atom sometimes you have to manually download system packages and configure stuff to get things working.
JavaScript linting was messy to get working.
I've had the Python linter end up with zombie processes and slowing down my system.

Visual Studio "proper" is a horrible IDE. Bloated, slow, resource hungry.
I take Visual Studio Code over that behemoth every day of the week.

VS 2017 is more modular so it is less bloated. Example if you want only do Python you can install VS with that only, and then you can't do C# and stuff.
Pure VS is not so slow and bloated. But yeah, I've experienced problems when using it together with Team Foundation Services (TFS) / Visual Studio Online (VSO) and third-party extensions. Sometimes it stalls, locks up, freezes.
Off-topic: here is a extension for improving code. SonarLint, it is open source.

[boxie]

Probably still better than any other text editor / IDE on Linux.

I think you need some more Jetbrains IDE action in your life.

[mike44]

very happy with VS Code in Unity3d. Full VS would slow my workflow.

[edoantonioco]

Still no Visual Studio (full IDE, not that funny VS Code) on Linux. Writing on Windows for Linux? Thanks, but no.

It already happened for Mac, and according to Icaza on twitter, they hope to do it for linux too.