And .NET is still very much Microsoft’s baby. Unlike an independent language like C or JS or Rust, MS could pull the rug out at any time.
Yes, Mono. But Mono is an unofficial port of a moving target. They have no control over the direction of .NET.
With open membership https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2018/12/04/announcing-net-... and election of its board https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-...
Maybe MS will in future cede all control over the language. Maybe in future 99% of code contributions won’t come from Microsoft employees.
But even then it would take years for the language to become more widely adopted outside Windows.
What you mean? C# is open source. And, here is the location - https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang
So in practice, 'pulling the rug out from under' Mono (or .NET Core) users would be pulling the rug out from under paying customers.
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