ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

rbanffy wrote: post #3

It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing. I'm curious, so: AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?

We do, because:

1. We already know it well and it's good enough.

2. Things just work. Somehow I'm expecting to face lots of strange problems in RoR with stuff like encoding, threads, networking.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by JonoW » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:00 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #3

It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing. I'm curious, so: AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?

I'm not in a startup or anything, but consider this; cloud computing is gaining momentum fast, and lots of startups will use cloud platforms like EC2, AppEngine, Azure etc.

The one thing about this change is that traditional licensing concerns go away. If you use Azure, you are paying by usage, so Windows licenses aren't in play. I guess my point is that the fear of launching a startup and having to face spirling license costs (for using MS products) is going to decline as more people adopt cloud platforms.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by jeroen » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:01 PM UTC

august 2008:

"Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool ..."

http://www.red-gate.com/our-company/about/news/net-reflector

february 2011:

"Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March"

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflecto...

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by InclinedPlane » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:07 PM UTC

jeroen wrote: post #6

august 2008: "Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool ..." http://www.red-gate.com/our-company/about/news/net-reflector february 2011: "Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March" http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflecto...

From the second link:

"As many of you know, our original intention was to maintain .NET Reflector as a free tool. But, after two-and-a-half years of providing it without charge, we realized that we could not make the free model work. We know that this will cause pain for some people in the .NET community, and we apologize for the change in policy.

As a commercial company, we need to charge at least a nominal amount to keep .NET Reflector up-to-date and relevant. Without revenue coming in, we cannot dedicate a team of developers to ensure that Reflector remains a valuable part of .NET developers’ toolboxes."

They gave it a shot, for 2.5 years, and it didn't work. It's hard to fault them. Consider how ridiculously low $35 is for any tool of this sort, I don't think this is some money grubbing effort on Red-Gate's part.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by henrikschroder » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:13 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #3

It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing. I'm curious, so: AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?

We're using it, because we knew it, and it just works.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by meier2 » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:23 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #3

It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing. I'm curious, so: AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?

We do. It works fine, no reason to switch.

My background is Windows dev, that is why "we" choose it in he first place.

Re: ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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Post by meier2 » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 12:24 PM UTC

JonoW wrote: post #5

rbanffy wrote: post #3

It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing. I'm curious, so: AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?

I'm not in a startup or anything, but consider this; cloud computing is gaining momentum fast, and lots of startups will use cloud platforms like EC2, AppEngine, Azure etc. The one thing about this change is that traditional licensing concerns go away. If you use Azure, you are paying by usage, so Windows licenses aren't in play. I guess my point is that the fear of launching a startup and having to face spirling lic…

Plus: Compared to salaries, license costs are negligible.