.NET Rocks!

Twenty Years of .NET with Miguel de Icaza

Twenty years of .NET! Carl and Richard talk to Miguel de Icaza about his experiences working with .NET, going all the way back to 2001 with the announcement of the Mono Project. Miguel talks about those early days of Mono, creating MonoTouch to make C# run on iOS, Xamarin, and more! The conversation also dives into the evolution of open source, and the impact that tech companies have on open source projects, and what the future might hold for open source maintainers.

Guests:

Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza is an open-source developer and advocate, and a Microsoft distinguished engineer.

Links:

• .NET MAUI Preview 12 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-preview-12/
• Miguel Talks Mono August 2004 https://dotnetrocks.com/?show=75
• Don Box Singing to Miguel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHR1ZOrWqaU
• ONNX Runtime https://onnxruntime.ai/
• Uno Platform https://platform.uno/
• Avalonia https://avaloniaui.net/
• Flutter https://flutter.dev/
• LLVM https://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html
• Discourse https://www.discourse.org/
• XKCD Dependency Cartoon https://xkcd.com/2347/
• Security This Week Podcast https://redcircle.com/shows/security-this-week
• Rust Lang https://www.rust-lang.org/