Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

#1

Post by zaroth » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 6:17 AM UTC

MS is making a huge investment in C# infrastructure, that seems like an equally large win for the C# developer economy as well? If you want to develop universally, has C# now become the the best option (was it before)?

Do other C# devs see this as a gift from MS? I know a lot of people live and breath C# every day, and would love to continue doing so!

Re: Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

#2

Post by Fourkeys » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 8:41 AM UTC

Do you have any sources to add to this, I've just started learning ASP.net and C# and would be interested to read what this refers to.

Re: Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

#3

Post by FesterCluck » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 8:54 AM UTC

Fourkeys wrote: post #2

Do you have any sources to add to this, I've just started learning ASP.net and C# and would be interested to read what this refers to.

He's likely referring to this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-i...

.Net was recently open sourced, along with the compilers. MS also has put real effort into making it cross platfrom with great results.

As a C# & JavaScript developer, I'm floored with this. It's such a huge shift from the past. Yes, it's wonderful.

Re: Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

#4

Post by stale » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 8:56 AM UTC

Fourkeys wrote: post #2

Do you have any sources to add to this, I've just started learning ASP.net and C# and would be interested to read what this refers to.

They released Community Edition of Visual Studio (great improvement over Express) and are going more open source with .Net. http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/free-developer-of...

http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/

Re: Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

#5

Post by EnderMB » Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 9:40 AM UTC

I'm a happy .NET developer, but sometimes I often feel that being so involved in .NET alienates me from a lot of useful tooling built for Linux. If I need a tool there's usually something out there for me, but I'm a mid-to-senior level ASP.NET developer that hasn't used Linux in anger since university, so I would probably struggle if I decided to move over to another language.

I doubt all .NET developers feel this way, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of existing .NET developers can't wait to fire up Linux and develop in a framework they love with full support.