[trnglina]

I'm going to argue that, while the .NET environment may be unfamiliar, it's as good (if not better!) than the NodeJS environment for "getting stuff done." You may have fewer libraries (depending on what you're looking for), but with .NET Standard 2, you need fewer of them. The standard library has support for everything from Memory Mapped Files [0], to Parallel loops [1], every collection type under the sun [2], globalisation [3], and HTTP applications [4].

Memory management is just as automatic as well (they seem to just be using the mono runtime).

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.memory...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collectio...

[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.globaliza...

[4]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http?...

[fortran77]

The development tools are wonderful. The debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition (free) is better than anything else out there.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

And bringing it back to small embedded systems, there are some really nice plugins for VS that let you stay in that familiar environment. I am so much more productive with Visual Studio and the VisualMicro and Visual GDB plugins than I would be in the respective "native" IDEs.

[cronin101]

> every collection type under the sun [2]

Except heaps / priority queues, which always irked me because it's in the Java standard library :-(