[SparkBomb]

It really depends where you are. In the UK half the places seem to use .NET in some form or another.

I am pretty language agnostic and I am reasonably competent programming in C# (I worked with C# and VB.NET for about 15 years), Go, Python, TypeScript and C++ these days.

The issue with a lot of places that do C#/.NET stuff is that they will typically ignore new tech until it is officially blessed by Microsoft. You can have a piece of tech that everyone is using and works really well and it will be ignored if it isn't blessed by Microsoft.

The other issue with .NET is all the Microsoft gumpf that tends to come with it even with the newer versions of .NET.

I am also in the weird place of being a Linux user. I've had job interviews that wanted to do live coding exercise/take home code exercise and they expect you to do everything in Visual Studio with SQL Server.

[mrsmrtss]

Why would they insist on using Visual Studio? At least you can run SQL Server easily on Linux using docker.

[SparkBomb]

> Why would they insist on using Visual Studio?

They don't even know Rider exists a lot of the time. It is also quite different visually compared to Visual Studio code.

A lot of places have never used Linux at all and if they have they have it would be WSL or some RHEL box. So if you are screen sharing Gnome and with a totally different IDE and Terminal the person assessing you might not actually understand what you are doing.

> At least you can run SQL Server easily on Linux using docker.

1) They normally want you to use something like SQL Server Compact or SQL Server Express and a specific version. TBH I just don't bother anymore with these interviews because it takes like a couple of hours to get all this stuff working on Windows.

2) SQL Server Projects can only be used on Windows with Visual Studio. Some places do a lot of stuff "old school" and they want you to use that.