[dodyg]

- It is a mature platform with yearly updates.

- New stuffs integrate nicely with existing features.

- C# and F# gets yearly updates.

- Somehow they manage to get the platform faster every year.

- Microsoft Orleans.

[mathverse]

Microsoft seems weird tho. They dont really support any recommended way to do .NET on Mac and you have to rely on Rider or half ass VS Code experience.

[Kuraj]

Rider is so much better than Visual Studio or Code in my opinion, but I understand how the price could be a deal breaker.

[Errsher]

Is it "wierd tho" that Microsoft would have better support for development tools on their own OS than on a competitor OS?

[mathverse]

It's absolutely weird because that ship has sailed. The paradigm is to hook you into the platform which you can't do if you are hostile.

[Someone1234]

You're right. They did until recently, but it was bad. Now they seem to have moved attention to creating a great experience in VSCode but some of it may require a MSDN sub (they seem to be making the core experience free, with paid extensions to give more Visual Studio-like features in VSCode).

[topbanana]

What's wrong with Rider?

[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

It's not a Microsoft tool. For a supposedly fully cross-platform language it seems pretty bad to only support first-class developer experience on Windows.

[c0nfused]

I believe that vs code is the way they want you to do .net on windows as well.

The tooling is all CLI based anyway so do what feels best. :)

[rahkiin]

They support ‘dotnet’ cli, just not an IDE. But we’ve got Rider