Microsoft’s open source programming language push reached a new milestone Monday, as the company announced the general availability of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0.

Those two projects are Microsoft’s attempt to make the core elements of its programming language available for use on Linux and OS X, operating systems that previously didn’t support it. To reach this milestone, more than 18,000 developers, representing 1,300 companies, contributed to .NET Core.

It’s all part of Microsoft’s push to make .NET available for developers to use across platforms, whether on the desktop, servers or mobile. To that end, the tech giant earlier this year acquired Xamarin, which makes a set of tools allowing developers to build mobile apps across iOS and Android using .NET, too.

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