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by osigurdson 1183 days ago
Yes, everything is completely free, open source.
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Kipters 1183 days ago
Everything but the debugger sadly
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lll-o-lll 1183 days ago
I know! How crap is that? As a result, no debugging on a Raspberry PI.

It turned me right off C# outside of work. There are plenty of other languages that are better suited for hobby development.

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osigurdson 1183 days ago
Monetizing software is so incredibly indirect. Obviously companies don't make any money on free frameworks and tooling. These days, using C#/.NET maybe/kinda/sorta increases the chances that you might deploy on Azure or use Azure services. That tiny (or not so tiny) uptick easily funds all C# / .NET ecosystem development.

I'm not sure why they do not open source the debugger. I suppose it is obvious to some extent that some companies (JetBrains) are able to charge for high quality tooling. Microsoft makes a trickle of money from Visual Studio professional.

Though the objective function and decision variables are somewhat opaque, this is clearly an optimization problem.

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Rapzid 1183 days ago
The why is Visual Studio. The VPs running that div are a bunch of Muppets who are constantly trying their best to destroy the OSS .Net projects reputation.

The cynic in me suspects all the drama was directly related to Scott Hanselman suddenly losing interest in bloggin.

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