Microsoft .Net's Execution Engine Goes Open Source

Continuing with plans to open up its software development technologies, Microsoft this week open-sourced CoreCLR, the .Net execution engine in the .Net Core platform.
CoreCLR performs functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code, providing a modular implementation of .Net that can be used as the base stack for a variety of scenarios, the Microsoft .Net team said in a blog post on Tuesday. In turn, .Net Core can scale from console utilities to Web apps to the cloud. �