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by LtWorf 394 days ago
If you want linux support, .net is not what you want.

Linux support is an afterthought and it shows. And you never know if it might be dropped next year.
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mrcsharp 394 days ago
Wrong. Linux support is first class in .Net just like Windows. We are strictly running our .Net code on linux servers and have encountered 0 problems over the past 5 years.
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LtWorf 394 days ago
3 seconds of looking at the API and you see it's not 1st class at all. Presuming you have ever done any programming on linux, that is.
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mrcsharp 393 days ago
> The API

Which one?

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LtWorf 393 days ago
the ones dealing with processes are very obviously a terrible match for posix systems for example.
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neonsunset 393 days ago
Don't bother: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396171

These people could not care less about engaging with the subject, they are here because they feel obliged to engage in a moment of hatred of what they think is an enemy tribe.

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mrcsharp 393 days ago
Wow what a thread!
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LtWorf 392 days ago
I mean… I provided justifications and links. The fact that you choose to disregard all of that is on you.

And the bit where you got angry because I didn't reply quick enough on an internet forum shows that perhaps you need to improve your manners.

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dashtiarian 393 days ago
If you are a .NET shop, .NET core still has a better Linux than Legacy .NET framework hence the migration.

If you are a Java shop everything just works so why touch it?

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LtWorf 392 days ago
How do you tell systemd/sysv that your daemon is now ready to accept connections? How do you log to syslog?

In java there's no equivalent to daemon() (unless you go out of your way to call the libc) and java doesn't support SOCK_DGRAM for unix sockets, so no syslog either.

.net seems to have the same issues.

"everything just works" is true only for a very very narrow definition of "everything" which leaves out "daemon that works decently"

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neonsunset 393 days ago
We've had this conversation before, it's likely a waste to reply but, well, my mistake.

For those interested as to why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43396171

A few more arguments while we're at it:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry (Linux leads with 77% of all systems invoking .NET CLI commands)

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy... (first-class epoll/kqueue integration with async, much like the one Go has with goroutines via netpoll)

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/coreclr/gc/u... (GC implementation is cgroups-aware, unlike Go)

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