[codeflo]

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).