.NET 10

I was somewhat recently attempting to help my manager get a C# dev environment set up. He was used to doing everything the C/Java/JavaScript/Python/almost-every-language-under-the-sun way, and avoiding the "Microsoft way" of doing things created so many roadblocks. I had no idea that over the previous ~20 years I had been practicing a C# compiler summoning ritual and had become incredibly good at it. From the start I recommended installing Rider, VS, or VSCode, and that's eventually what worked - but having to drink the kool aid to that extent is fucking absurd.

I personally won't be using it, given the choice, again. I don't like exceptions, but can live with them. I don't like null, but can live with it. Nuget is complete and utter garbage. You still have to resort to all forms of unreliable hacks in order to redirect it to a locally clone (and if you do use a feed to avoid that, good luck with getting the local cache to not be completely moronic).

(Look, it certainly didn't help that the project itself was heavily enterprisey because the developers hadn't kicked those habits)

>He was used to doing everything the C/Java/JavaScript/Python/almost-every-language-under-the-sun way, and avoiding the "Microsoft way" of doing things created so many roadblocks.

What exactly does this mean? I haven't touched .NET in earnest in over 10 years. I know the ecosystem has evolved a lot since then, but I don't know how or in what ways

Isn't it just a single file installation?

Just install the .NET SDK, and you’re ready to go.

> Nuget is complete and utter garbage. You still have to resort to all forms of unreliable hacks in order to redirect it to a locally clone

How so, you can use a nuget.config in your project and use your local packages fairly easy, seems in part with npm and the likes.

"Just" is an incredibly obnoxious word when used in the way that you have.

> Just install

Not on Debian? Have fun with that. You'll also need the Azure SDK. And what about openssl-dev? Oh no, you installed dotnet on Windows instead of within WSL? Start again.

No, you don't "just install" the SDK. There is a lot that the IDEs set up for you.

> Local nuget.config

I don't see how adding a nuget config improves anything. You have completely omitted what you place inside of it to make it build and use a local clone of the package source.

Look at all this nonsense that people have resorted to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32482746/how-to-temporar...

No. It's a tar + some config envars if you need to do it manually.