I’ve been using C# since 2001, before C# 2.0 and its generics rewrite and when J# was a promising star in Microsoft’s eye. There is no “Microsoft bullshit” surrounding the language any more. Microsoft runs it in production on Linux and the language (and runtime) has been transformed.
- EF Core works great. We connected it to RDS Postgres in AWS with container instances running on T4g ARM instances.
- Our pipeline used the `dotnet` CLI to do all the builds on our local M1 MacBook Pros and in GitHub Actions on Linux runners. Want to build a .NET codebase? `dotnet build` from the CLI. Want to run it? `dotnet run`. Want to watch for file changes and hot-reload? `dotnet watch`. .NET is really, really streamlined right now. Better than Node at the moment (as a dev that works fullstack and has workloads on .NET and Node).
- Our team used a mix of VS Code and JetBrains Rider. Two devs started on VS Mac, but eventually we all ended up using VSC or Rider on Mac.
- Bloat is pretty minimal; really easy to build a console app or a web API that more or less looks like an Express web app.
Here's a 7 minute video demonstrating building a .NET web API on an M1 Mac and then pushing it into an x64 Alpine Linux container in Google Cloud Run: https://youtu.be/GlnEm7JyvyY
in my 10 years of using .NET and C# i encounter microsoft bullshit most days, so i would bet money that you run into those cases all the time but just got used to it lol
I've been using it exclusively on an M1 Mac for the last 2+ years. I was just at a startup where the entire team was deploying into T4 Arm instances in AWS. Two developers started on Windows machines, but at the end, every developer was on a Mac.
I have some workloads that I'm developing on my M1 Mac that I'm containerizing and pushing into an x64 Linux runtime environment in Google Cloud.
I guess this is my point: a lot of misunderstanding and misconception about the state of C# and .NET.
What do you mean? It has great support for other platforms. I've been using it on Linux for as long as .NET Core has existed and it has always felt really natural and there are as much documentation for Linux as for Windows with the things I've been doing
Do you mean the .Net Foundation brouhaha a year or two ago around code ownership? Or Visual Studio, the product? Or simply that some people will never forgive Microsoft for embrace-extend-extinguish and as a result won't ever give any tech a chance of it originated from Microsoft?
(If only we could first-class FreeBSD support…)