[lmm]

But .net is inherently enterprisey. You have to license all the things you're using, or did until recently - Visual Studio, SQL Server... you may not have to pay if you're a small business or whatever but it's always going to be a lot more effort than just clicking download. That has a chilling effect on people using these technologies for the side projects that become productive small businesses, and it compounds because if no-one's using that stack in these places then there's no open-source library ecosystem because there's no-one to create that.

[cwbrandsma]

No different than the Java shops I've seen.

[lmm]

Very different in my experience; there's a lot more on maven central, because the toolchain and other popular components (e.g. mariadb) are freely available, so you can very easily spin up the same environment at home.