Just read that Microsoft is planning to open source the full server-side .NET core stack and to take that open-sourced .NET core to Linux and Mac OS X, alongside Windows.
Read about it here
It's a little beyond me but does that mean the SDK for the EZ-B will possibly soon be compatible with Linux and iOS? Which will open up a whole bunch of options.
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-- and Ha.. I finally beat you to a post. I posted about this yesterday here in post #25
Alan
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Edit: I removed some info about Mono and compatibility which DJ said much better than I did