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by GFischer 3962 days ago
One thing to keep in mind: if you're building a startup in .NET, you have access to BizSpark (and Azure credits), which, at least for me, has been an amazing help as it removes the friction, hassle and stress of licensing and the monthly cloud expenses. There's even a bigger BizSpark offering which was around on HN some months ago.

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

OTOH Azure is (was?) one of the most expensive providers, so after you outgrow BizSpark it might not make financial sense any more (though if you have paying customers, it will probably not be a significant expense :) and they're betting on it I guess).

I never considered another choice because I come from Microsoft shops (I tried Groovy/Grails and other stuff, but didn't find a reason to switch). I'm extremely happy with my choice so far, I love the IDE and the ease of use, I'm very comfortable with MSSQL, etc...