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As a c# dev I am quite excited about all this. Open source, cross platform, .net native, aspnet5.. very very nice.

Does anybody know what are other cmunities (ruby, python, nodejs..) up to an what is happening in their ecosystems?

Frontend type for a .net house, and I'm absolutely delighted at this new direction - lots of stuff ms were doing is legitimately awesome (I much prefer visualstudio to intellij, even if it steadfastly refuses to hilight my jsx syntax properly) but there was always that nagging feeling that we were working in a dull, Enterprise orientated, closed ecosystem whilst the cool kids got to play with all the shiny new toys.

That just isn't the case anymore, and might just have saved Microsoft's platform from slowly becoming Lotus Notes/Domino or something.

I think Microsoft is at it's best when it thinks it's in second place.

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