[ComputerGuru]

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.

(If only we could first-class FreeBSD support…)

[yungporko]

msbuild, entity framework, msal, visual studio and all the jank and bloat that comes with it, all microsoft bullshit which exists right now.

[CharlieDigital]

I don't get it.

- 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