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by oaiey 1831 days ago
I think this is perceived much worse than it is. I work in a polyglot company. .NET had never limited us compared to the Java, Python, C++ or JavaScript languages we have also in use.

.NET is not tailored to something specific Microsofty. However, the .NET community is still challenged when taking 3rd party dependencies (which is the actual limitation) and then complaints when Microsoft is not delivering the perfect kitchen sink.
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codeflo 1829 days ago
I might be in a minority because I write a lot of .NET which in production is almost exclusively deployed on Linux. It's absolutely viable, performance is great, and tool support is fantastic. We agree so far.

However, I have to point out that .NET does have a Windows-only heritage, and as a result, a lot of lower-level APIs (files, processes, signals, pipes, terminals) still have some painful Windows-isms. Fortunately, the situation improves every year, and for a typical server application that exclusively communicates over the network, you're completely fine (and have been for several years now).

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R0b0t1 1831 days ago
Up until very, very recently .NET was absolutely useless on non-Windows platforms, only supporting the bare minimum APIs you need for web apps. It's still not very useful on non-Windows platforms.
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