[thewebguyd]

People (particularly, HN) still associate it with the old .NET framework days and it being tied to Microsoft, Windows Server, etc.

.NET has had a hard time shaking off that old stigma, and to be fair, by the time it was really good, a lot of places already moved on to other tech (in particular, Go) .NET missed its window to escape the enterprise and despite being great, will probably never be seen as sexy.

I love it though. It's by far one of the most productive frameworks, and C# is pleasant to work with, and F# even more so.

[whoknowsidont]

Nope. I see this deflection attempt all the time. Plenty well versed in both old and new .NET.