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“Over time, the .NET platform is becoming closed, to ensure it is only useful if you are a customer.”

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That line comes from Miguel de Icaza, who founded Mono. The open language still has no open debugger, and even Microsoft employees complain about it in public. Leadership pulled hot reload over the objections of its own developer division. The .NET Foundation moved member projects into its GitHub org without consent. Open source, on Microsoft’s terms.