Noob question, what's the advantage of using a language library over using your programming language favorite http client?
Official support for .NET
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Re: Official support for .NET
#22Noob question, what's the advantage of using a language library over using your programming language favorite http client?
Speaking with experience of the Python Stripe library, automatic type conversions, native exceptions, keeps my code cleaner.
If it were a simple API, I might agree, but Stripe does a lot of stuff and in payments, many things can go wrong. Particularly being able to directly handle exceptions (rather than picking apart obscure status codes) is a godsend.
Re: Official support for .NET
#23Ugh, thank God. I get that until 2016 and Nadella/.NETCore only Ruby, JavaScript, and Python were the hipster languages of choice for web development... but .NET has been an awesome, rapid-development, tried-and-tested, business-friendly option for creating business applications, including, believe it or not, eCommerce platforms. Outside the "hacker bubble" no one in their right mind would have neglected .NET as a fi…
Still in my hall of shame: CockroachDB, which decided Closure and Rust were more important than .NET - I love Cockroach but based on this I wonder if they want to make any money.
Re: Official support for .NET
#24More Silicon Valley startups need to get on board with .NET. Yeah, I know it's strongly typed and doesn't abuse white space, but you're missing A LOT of potential customers when you skip out on .NET. Seems like a really poor business decision to ignore it simply because there isn't someone on your team who has built a compiler for it in their spare time.
Re: Official support for .NET
#25Aside: there seems to be a lot of renewed interest in .Net with the advances of Core and other cross platform support in the open.
renewed interest Maybe in the Hacker News bubble. Outside of that, things have been cruising along quite nicely for at least a decade.
I've worked with .Net devs for most of the past 17-18 years... I've done my fair share of C# development beyond that. And I've seen a lot of shops move away from .Net. Several to Node.js, others to Java or Ruby. It's not just a Hacker News bubble.
I'm working in a place now, where most new development is .Net core to be deployed in Linux. There are also a few node projects, and go is also approved for new projects. Being able to target and deploy cross platform is huge.
Re: Official support for .NET
#26Noob question, what's the advantage of using a language library over using your programming language favorite http client?
As above, but also the out of the box HTTP client in C# is quite limited.
Re: Official support for .NET
#27Ugh, thank God. I get that until 2016 and Nadella/.NETCore only Ruby, JavaScript, and Python were the hipster languages of choice for web development... but .NET has been an awesome, rapid-development, tried-and-tested, business-friendly option for creating business applications, including, believe it or not, eCommerce platforms. Outside the "hacker bubble" no one in their right mind would have neglected .NET as a fi…
Still in my hall of shame: CockroachDB, which decided Closure and Rust were more important than .NET - I love Cockroach but based on this I wonder if they want to make any money.
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Re: Official support for .NET
#28More Silicon Valley startups need to get on board with .NET. Yeah, I know it's strongly typed and doesn't abuse white space, but you're missing A LOT of potential customers when you skip out on .NET. Seems like a really poor business decision to ignore it simply because there isn't someone on your team who has built a compiler for it in their spare time.
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Re: Official support for .NET
#29Ugh, thank God. I get that until 2016 and Nadella/.NETCore only Ruby, JavaScript, and Python were the hipster languages of choice for web development... but .NET has been an awesome, rapid-development, tried-and-tested, business-friendly option for creating business applications, including, believe it or not, eCommerce platforms. Outside the "hacker bubble" no one in their right mind would have neglected .NET as a fi…
shrug - they're a billion dollar company so maybe it wasn't that bad a decision.
We're planning on using stripe (with our .NET code base) and if they didn't have an api - we would have simply used their REST api. We weren't going to switch to another payment processor just for a wrapper around the web service.
Also - the .NET ecosystem is large - but how many .NET-based products are there (that would take payments via Stripe)? It's got to be a small percentage right?
Re: Official support for .NET
#30Ugh, thank God. I get that until 2016 and Nadella/.NETCore only Ruby, JavaScript, and Python were the hipster languages of choice for web development... but .NET has been an awesome, rapid-development, tried-and-tested, business-friendly option for creating business applications, including, believe it or not, eCommerce platforms. Outside the "hacker bubble" no one in their right mind would have neglected .NET as a fi…
Still in my hall of shame: CockroachDB, which decided Closure and Rust were more important than .NET - I love Cockroach but based on this I wonder if they want to make any money.
Isn't cockroach protocol compatible with PGSQL?