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489 points runesoerensen | 2 comments | 11 Nov 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jcmontx ◴[12 Nov 25 12:09 UTC] No.45899182[source]▶
I've worked with .NET for over 10 years and we built our startup on top of it. Here are my thoughts:

Pros:

* Stability

* Very decent standard library

* Good balance between productivity and robustness

* Great package management

* Extremely easy to upgrade, so essentially free goodies (performance) every year or so

Cons:

* Very MSFT dominated (obviously)

* Subpar tooling outside of Windows (I'm looking at you C# Dev Kit)

* C# has way to many features, it feels bloated

* Culturally, it feels like .NET devs are less "passionate" about their work

* The freaking stigma of being a .NET dev: you will never be as cool as the guys who work with Node/Python/whatever

Edit: Also I'd like to add EFCore as one of the pros of the ecosystem. Hands down the best ORM. Others don't come close.

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1. theshrike79 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:45 UTC] No.45899472[source]▶
> * Culturally, it feels like .NET devs are less "passionate" about their work

Only in the "stove pipe industry" as we say here. Mobile gaming is massively C#-based for example and the people are really passionate about what they do.

And for a backend dev, the scale of stuff you get to work with is cool.

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2. 999900000999 ◴[12 Nov 25 22:47 UTC] No.45907967[source]▶
Unity C# is arguably its own thing.

The way you use C# is much different than anywhere else. The Unity implementation lags by a few versions. It’s an awesome language though