Mono 5.0 Rolls Out With Roslyn C# Compiler, Concurrent Garbage Collection

[Scellow]

I think Microsoft cross platform/open source efforts for .NET will stay focused to web applications, mobile and cloud computing. Desktop client applications will be always needed but they are not a huge business anymore: for that Qt is of course a good choice but only if your reference language is C++. A strong open source cross platform toolkit for C# GUI development never appeared and all attempts have only limited user base (xwt, Gtk#) or are discontinued (Mono WinForms, Moonlight). Xamarin.Forms could be an interesting newcomer, but Xamarin never intended to port it to Mac OSX or linux. Also it's hard to say the dev model in Xamain.Forms also scales to desktop client applications.

https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-fut...rin-forms-3-0/ Xamarin.Forms for mobile + Windows/Linux/macOS

[LightBit]

Smart way to ship java applications seems to be bundling your own JVM, but it's surprising how many applications don't do that.

That is insane. Why not bundle with your own OS than?

[DanLamb]

Smart way to ship java applications seems to be bundling your own JVM, but it's surprising how many applications don't do that.

JDK 9 makes that much easier. For server apps, which is Java/JVM's main use case, this doesn't seem important.