[josephcooney]

While you're technically correct, ROTOR hadn't received any updates for a long time, and the source was licensed in such a was as to make sure anyone who could benefit from it running on *NIX platforms was heavily incentivized not to do so.

[krylon]

IIRC, Rotor's license explicitly forbade porting it to Linux.

The impression I got back then was not so much of Microsoft showing how "cross-platform" .Net was, more like a big middle finger towards Linux.

[my123]

.NET Core on Linux runs on guess what... Rotor. Rotor has been relicensed to MIT

[my123]

.NET Core on Linux and macOS runs on Rotor, as does ChakraCore.