MORE .NET AVAILABLE AT OPEN SOURCE

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. This is the latest milestone on the road to making the full server-side .NET stack open sourceand expanding .NET to run on Linux and Mac OS platforms.

CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code. You can now check out theCoreCLR sources, fork, clone and build. This release follows the earlier release of thecore libraries, both of which demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to sharing a complete cross-platform .NET implementation.

“Today, .NET Core builds and runs on Windows. We will be adding Linux and Mac implementations of platform-specific components over the next few months,” the .NET team wrote in a blog post. “We already have some Linux-specific code in .NET Core, but we’re really just getting started on our ports. We wanted to open up the code first, so that we could all enjoy the cross-platform journey from the outset.”

The .NET team also provided guidance on how to build CoreCLR in the CoreCLRDeveloper Guide. The team will update the guide over time, including when the Linux and Mac builds are released.

To hear directly from the team on this milestone, check out the below Channel 9 video or go to the .NET Framework blog.