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by rattray 3390 days ago
Google Cloud supports Windows, right? What would be the problem? (Honest question)
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skrebbel 3390 days ago
None whatsoever, unless they're heavily bought into Azure-specific services.

The idea that if you do C# you must be on Azure (or the other way around) has been outdated since Azure started. The first startup I ran tech at hosted C# on Mono in Docker containers on DigitalOcean and had devs on all 3 major OSes.

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brogrammernot 3390 days ago
I'd be surprised if there isn't a decent amount of C# somewhere in the Google ecosystem.
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drewmate 3390 days ago
I'd be interested if anyone knows anything about this. Especially given the recent updates to for running .NET core on Linux/Mac, a company like Google could make great use of C# without needing to shell out for Windows licenses.
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chucksmash 3390 days ago
Relevant 10 year old blog post [1].

[1]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html?...

Don't know how true this still holds, but there was a time at least where it sounds like anything outside of C++, JVM languages and Python was off limits.

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