Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

2 pointsby zarothvor 12 Jahren4 comments

MS is making a huge investment in C# infrastructure, that seems like an equally large win for the C# developer economy as well? If you want to develop universally, has C# now become the the best option (was it before)?

Do other C# devs see this as a gift from MS? I know a lot of people live and breath C# every day, and would love to continue doing so!

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EnderMBvor 12 Jahren

I'm a happy .NET developer, but sometimes I often feel that being so involved in .NET alienates me from a lot of useful tooling built for Linux. If I need a tool there's usually something out there for me, but I'm a mid-to-senior level ASP.NET developer that hasn't used Linux in anger since university, so I would probably struggle if I decided to move over to another language.

I doubt all .NET developers feel this way, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of existing .NET developers can't wait to fire up Linux and develop in a framework they love with full support.

Fourkeysvor 12 Jahren

Do you have any sources to add to this, I've just started learning ASP.net and C# and would be interested to read what this refers to.

FesterCluckvor 12 Jahren

He's likely referring to this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-i...

.Net was recently open sourced, along with the compilers. MS also has put real effort into making it cross platfrom with great results.

As a C# & JavaScript developer, I'm floored with this. It's such a huge shift from the past. Yes, it's wonderful.

stalevor 12 Jahren

They released Community Edition of Visual Studio (great improvement over Express) and are going more open source with .Net. http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/free-developer-of...

http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/