[egeozcan]

Most of your electronic devices work with embedded software. Production lines, transport gates, cranes, computer hardware, ships, planes, rockets, cars, e-bikes, smart lights...

There is also scientific programming, that feeds research and analysis. Weather reports? Statistics, etc.

And there is gaming.

Devops, infrastructure? Databases? Tools for artists? Most of those aren't web. And yes I've heard of Figma.

There are probably tens of categories I'm missing.

Web is still bigger probably, but I have a problem with the saying "practically all other development is web".

[hshdhdhj4444]

I really doubt you’re using .NET (it literally is named in the dotcom style and refers to the interNET) in embedded software.

In an article about .Net its fair to talk primarily about creating APIs and other internet focused uses.

[master-lincoln]

And you just deduct that from the name? Was .NET created with a focus on web? It seems to me like a generic application framework.

ASP.NET is the web part, no?

[hshdhdhj4444]

I didn’t deduce it from the name. I deduced it from over a decade experience working primarily with .Net.

Since I can’t presume the reader has equivalent experience, especially in HN, pointing to the name, which should be a good signifier of what something does (to be fair, MS really, really sucks at naming), is a good shorthand.

The real reason .Net isn’t good for embedded devices is because MS didn’t develop it for embedded devices. They’ve only added low level memory management in the past few years.

Until recently you couldn’t even create a fully statically compiled executable.