[learc83]

CoreCLR is open source now, so even if Microsoft abandoned it tomorrow, the community would keep maintaining it or worst case most of it would probably get merged into Mono. This BSD port was mostly a community effort by the way.

I've recently decided to switch to .NET for everything. Mainly because I really like F#, and I've been using C# for a side project in Unity, but also because an open source CoreCLR makes me worry a lot less about vendor lock in.

[runfaster2000]

Nice choice! There is a _lot_ of investment in .NET at Microsoft. The move to open source and the community reaction to it has only made it more exciting and compelling for the company.

I get and appreciate the sentiment on "if Microsoft abandoned it tomorrow". Just clarifying that this risk is _very_ far from reality.

It's also really interesting to look at how Microsoft is approaching C#/Roslyn. One aspect of that is the C# 7 effort, which has an ambitious scope and has a great deal of open/public interaction. Check it out: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/2136