[wg0]

That it should work flawlessly on Linux. That it should be deployable without any "enterprise application container" or server software that requires specific licensing.

And that it should have first class developer and IDE tooling on every platform.

All of the above are actually true for Go, Rust, Python, PHP, Ruby, NodeJS etc but I'm no so sure that application development and deployment experience on Linux for .NET would be as first class, battle tested and widely documented.

For me, development+deployment for backend services, Linux is non-negotiable.

[SvenL]

Can you give more specific examples where deploying to Linux does not work? I use AoT compiling with static linking to have one binary - which can be copied and executed like any other Linux binary.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

[wg0]

Because my lack of experience in the subject matter, I'm afraid I can't be more specific rather can only speculate.

AOT sounds great but what matters to me is that I cannot afford a Windows machine. For me, developer tooling must be first class citizen on Mac and Linux, equally.

I'm not up to date on that either.

[SvenL]

I think on that front you would be fine too, they have a decent cli which also runs on Linux. You can use VS Code for editing or jetbrains rider ide.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux

[newprint]

You are either doing something completely wrong or I don't know what, but I'm ran/running extremely large enterprise applications in fortune ~50 company & smaller companies in .Net Core on Linux with no issues since 2017. In AWS EKS, Azure, on premise Kubernetes.

[wg0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38730846