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		Locke1689 on Dec 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A glimpse into a new programming language under de... What would make you happy here? Would open sourcing the C# compiler be enough? Open sourcing .NET? Providing .NET support and development for Linux? I'm honestly just curious, not to put you on the spot.

shadowmint on Dec 29, 2013 [–]

typescript and go are two examples of doing the right thing.

It's not hard, heck Microsoft has even done it before, they just missed the ball with C#.

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