> On Dec 10, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now that Microsoft is making .NET Core and PowerShell Core available
> on Linux and Mac, would someone who does recreational programming on
> one of those two OSes please see if you can find a language spec for
> it, and also information regarding what .NET Core doesn't support
> that's in the full .NET framework for Windows?

What they don’t support: Pretty much everything that .Net and Powershell are useful for: ie: manipulating Windows systems and Active Directory domains and services. If you’re a .Net or PowerShell programmer already, you may find them easier to get started with.

Without the various .Net and PowerShell modules, they’re mildly interesting programming languages which have no great advantage over other, more established ones, unless you’re Microsoft :-/

Node.js is the new hotness, and is amply supported on all platforms; GUI’s are (relatively) easy to make since they’re html. Ruby, Python and Perl all have wide x-platform support. Heck even bash is on Windows now :-)

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