C# on Linux...

[Jon]

Anyone know if C# will run on Linux in the future ?? If so when ??

[Erik Funkenbusch]

Probably not anytime soon. Microsoft has to release the full specifications to the ECMA before that will happen, and then it will probably take a while for an implemenation to achieve stable state.

[Lost User]

however... IBM has done a lot of work on the SOAP spec, and they want to push cross-platform work, and they're not too happy with the $un licencing model for Java so it could be that they will want to write an imlementation of C# on their Unix OSes (which includes Linux, I guess), linked with SOAP we could have a standard programming environment and distributed object protocol (that works between vendors) which is completely standards-based. wouldn't it be lovely? ;-) cheers