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484 points runesoerensen | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | 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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deburo ◴[12 Nov 25 13:24 UTC] No.45899834[source]▶
* C# has way to many features, it feels bloated

Most of the newer features make C# less cumbersome to use. I can't imagine using the language from ten years ago, in fact the first thing I do when working on a legacy app is to set langVersion=latest.

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1. jcmontx ◴[12 Nov 25 13:49 UTC] No.45900144[source]▶
Sometimes less is more. It very easy for devs to use the language in completely different ways. I lean towards Go style in that regard. My ideal language would be like Go + Linq.