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This doesn't seem like a mobile play at all, honestly.

They're opening the core, and large portions of the web server stack. This points to it being a play for web development, not native mobile.

There are some additional integrations with Xamarin - but Xamarin isn't owned by MS nor is it the key highlight of today's announcements.

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I should have read TFA before commenting :)

But that is even more puzzling. The backend space is so crowded with native, scripting and exotic languages, that I really don't see how they can attract hardcore c/c++/go/node.js/python/ruby/perl/php/erlang/haskell/lisp or Java crowds to .NET.

Maybe it's exciting for existing .net developers to be able to deploy their backend apps on linux servers.

You could have said the same thing about several of the languages you listed, even within the last 5 years. The difference here is that C# already has a massive userbase.

I am curious how .NET MVC will progress now. It was considered to be a decent offering. It is of course lacking the ecosystem.

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