[gib444]

Yup, the commercial libraries. That's pretty big. It's nice the standard library has lots of goodies, but I doubt many projects in reality are zero-dependency

(The amount of times I hear "the standard lib is great!" seems more to attempt to defend the plethora of commercial libraries, more than anything)

The community feels rather insular too? The 9-5 dayjob types with employers who don't understand or embrace open source? At my age I can respect that though

And is Postgresql a 2nd-class citizen? If so, your boss will tell you to use SQL Server surely?

I guess it's hard to get a grasp on the state/health of .NET as to me it seems 99.99999% of the code is in private repos companies, as it's not a popular choice for open source projects. Which itself seems like a proxy signal though

[CharlieDigital]

    > And is Postgresql a 2nd-class citizen?

No, it is not.

Microsoft maintains the Npgsql project[0] and I say that it is a very capable, feature rich adapter.

I have not used C# with SQL Server in almost a decade.

[0] https://www.npgsql.org/

[JCTheDenthog]

Also the recentish addition of multiple line string literals makes dealing with Postgres's case sensitivity a lot easier to manage.

[celeries]

I work with .NET for my day job and my team doesn't use any commercial libraries. I haven't felt limited in any sense by the .NET ecosystem. Nearly everything is open-source, too.

[vortegne]

exactly the same experience here

[jayd16]

The anemic open source projects are really from the lack of good cross platform support early on. That's changed now but it missed out on a time of rapid OSS expansion that Java and other took in.

It is what it is but I wouldn't say its actually the fault of the language, especially now.