[atonse]

I was a fulltime ruby developer before I became a full-time .NET developer (usually by accident). And things like Linq, Visual Studio, and Resharper ultimately allowed me to create code that was highly organized, while never sacrificing productivity or performance.

The thing I always hated most about the .NET ecosystem was having to run on Windows Server, so that's definitely a welcome change with .NET Core.

But C# has always been a wonderful language to work with. And you never really feel the static typing slow you down, yet get all the benefits of not having to write a bunch of useless tests that replace what a compiler should do in the first place.

(Not trying to make this a dynamic/static flame war by the way. I'm a full-time elixir developer nowadays, so I'm still in dynamic-land and enjoy it. Just not dogmatic about any of it)

[fgonzag]

More than windows it was the GUI centered developer tools and server setup. With powershell and the dotnet CLI things have improved massively. Now that we can just run on Linux I'm absolutely in love. I still use Java for some projects because of library dependencies (and kotlin also makes the work enojayble) but I prefer .net for Greenfield projects