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  • Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2024
    I hate to defend telemetry of all things but in this particular case the criticism is unfounded and lacks context:

    https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

    https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

    In any case, Debian would use https://github.com/dotnet/source-build and dotnet/dotnet, and could easily include the argument or a patch for this. It’s unlikely to be an issue. My bet it was not in Debian because there was no one to take initiative or there was but that person has faced a backlash by people in Debian who are similar to vocal minority here that posts FUD because of their little personal crusade.

  • Show HN: Git-credential-OAuth, Git Credential helper using OAuth in browser
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
    .NET applications are technically challenging for Linux distributions to package. https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2960

    Git Credential Manager indeed release a self-contained binary for Linux x86_64 (no arm64 yet), though the installation size is necessarily large (80 MB) to include the .NET runtime. git-credential-oauth Linux binaries (x86_64 and arm64) are much smaller at 5 MB. https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth#comparison-...

  • Disadvantages of using F# with Mono?
    2 projects | /r/fsharp | 7 May 2023
    It's recommended to build from source for Debian, at least. Here's the latest stable release of the SDK announcement: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/3369
  • .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2022
    Unfortunately, packaging applications built on .NET is still a challenge for any OS that wants to build everything from source and doesn't allow network access. Like you say, duplicating nuget into os-app-package-manager is challenging. Even side from the duplication, we need to bootstrap the ecosystem, in particular dealing with cyclic dependencies and version explosion as a result of all the different versions of all the dependencies that an average dotnet application needs.

    We are starting to work through it here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2960. Any advice/tips/contributions would be welcome, I think.

  • Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2022
    If you want to build .NET Core yourself, Microsoft provides you with the steps necessary to do so here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build

    Maybe our definitions of open source are different, or maybe you're just shitting on Microsoft for your own reasons. Regardless of whatever your experiences have been with .NET in the past, they don't mirror the majority of the folks that use it everyday.

  • C# for Systems Programming
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2021
    The C# compiler and parts of the supporting .NET runtime are written in C#, so yes there is a boot strapping issue. Other languages like Rust or even C compilers written in C have this problem.

    For initial porting to a new system or processor architecture, the C++ part of CoreCLR (the main runtime for .NET) can be built with CMake and LLVM on the target system. The libraries can be cross-compiled on another system that already supports .NET and copied to the target system. Some Details are here:

    https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core...

    For building from source to satisfy requirements Linux distributions, Microsoft has a system to build from source. My understanding from the last time I closely looked at it is some binary dependencies are de compiled to MSIL (the bytecode used by .NET). Since CoreCLR includes a MSIL assembler written in C++ (ilasm), it can bootstrap using these MSIL sources. But I have not looked at this project closely in a while and it evolved quite a lot while I was watching it. The system for the source build is here:

    https://github.com/dotnet/source-build

  • What would you recommend as a workaround/alternative for VisualStudio for my university course under Linux?
    3 projects | /r/Fedora | 17 May 2021
    Note that there's a bug with the version of dotnet from Fedora's repositories (basically any version built from source by distro maintainers) that breaks Omnisharp for a lot of projects. See https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/2006
  • FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021
    It's coming. Progress is being tracked here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1139
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