[ameyv]

I have being doing dotnet for at least 7 years now. Started with Webforms being fresh out of university. I'm sad to say I agree with most criticism of dotnet ecosystem. I personally believe MS always want to be in control and that leaves no space for innovation in open source as well. It feels like suffocation at best.

MS took control of javascript community in through typescript and npm. Now most of companies want typescript guy doing frontend in react/angular. Added already one more abstraction to already complex JS ecosystem.

I have used Python recently. It felt like breath of fresh air. Plus IDE are really smooth.

I have nothing against dotnet/C# as language. Its ecosystem that tightly controlled and criticism is shot down quite literally. All important libraries in MS world are locked behind paywall unlike Python, Java, JS, ruby communities. This scene has changed in recent years, but quite it was like that before 2018. Like PDF generation, SSO libraries, tools for profiling.

Anyway I personally think that dotnet should not be once first language/entry into programming career. You will miss innovation open source ecosystem and will be behind for years than your other language peers.

Also dotnet job market has lot of issues, good paying job are required you to either maintain legacy system in SOAP/XML, webservice and what not. Not much of vibrant job market for dotnet i would say.

Apologies for rant.