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What's the relationship of this project with Mono?

Mono has provided a Linux compatible .NET for a while. I have been using that one a backend system and it works well.

So just wondering if this is completely divorced from that effort or there is some cross polinations between them?

Yes, there is cross pollination. See this blog post from Miguel de Icaza for more details: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html

There is some amount of cross-pollination. Mono has been using library code that Microsoft has been open-sourcing, for a while now. However, the core VMs are and will remain separate, so they are very much different projects and will remain so.

The bottom line is that people will have a choice of two different .NET VMs on non-Windows OSes now.

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