Omnisharp-roslyn: Why Omnisharp Roslyn isn't .NET Core base on OSX/Linux ?

[xsoheilalizadeh]

You said in the readme:

OmniSharp-Roslyn is built with the .NET Core SDK on Windows and Mono on OSX/Linux. It targets the net461 target framework. OmniSharp requires mono (>=5.2.0) if it is run on a platform other than Windows.

So the question is that why we don't use .NET Core for OSX/Linux platform? I think it's cloud be better and we'll have .NET Core advantages instead mono. I there any plan for this?

Also here we have an image that shows even OmniSharp for Windows is .net framework.

[filipw]

This is by design, and is needed to in order to use MSBuild tasks targeting Full Framework - as they don't work on CoreCLR. Note that OmniSharp ships with its own embedded mono runtime too, so it can run even if you don't have a global mono installed. In other words, a full framework based OmniSharp can support all kinds of projects (full framework, .net core, unity etc) but a .net core based OmniSharp has a lot of troubles supporting non-.NET Core projects. We used to build .NET Core OmniSharp in the past but we went away from it.

You can find more information here https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/pull/988 and here https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/issues/666 and here https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/pull/915

[xsoheilalizadeh]

Thanks!