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Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

wasn't .NET always cross platform? Unity uses it, bundled lots with games, and I guess the primary use in software was with winform which ISNT cross platform, but move past that and it's just, like, java but better, don't quote me on that one

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Not really. Up through 4.8, the .NET Framework was built exclusively for Windows. Unity actually runs on Mono (I'm pretty sure it's Mono, but it's definitely not .NET), which is an entirely different runtime.

    Roundabout .NET Framework 4.7, Microsoft started an effort to re-build .NET from scratch, to be open-source and cross-platform, and called it .NET Core. That made it to 3.0, and then got re-branded to .NET 5, when they decided they wanted to sunset the Windows-specific implementation at 4.8. Now, we're up to .NET 10.

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