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Easy to avoid depending on the area; I'd urge you not to be discouraged by the presence of commercial libraries. They aren't as vital as it may seem from the outside. I've been a full-time C# developer since the first open beta and I have only one (1) instance where I used a commercial library. That was 2002 and if we were doing it today, we wouldn't have needed that commercial library. I have never used a commercial…
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For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%. We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally. I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.
For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%. We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally. I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.
> I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma There are plenty of real issues that are not the enterprise stigma. I built a backend web api this year with it and C# is fantastic. EF Core is truly one of the best ORMs I've ever used. That said, I regret that decision and won't be using it again for any new projects. Honestly it looks like Microsoft is distracted and…
I don't think Microsoft doesn't know what to do with .NET. I think it continues on a very logical and direct path. But they have no idea what to do with UI on any platform. Luckily they haven't even deprecated any of the existing options and on the web, at least, you have all the same options as every other platform.
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> dotnet requiring a CLR is not particularly well-suited for containerization Why? I routinely put compiled .NET programs into containers. It's also easy (easier than Rust even) to build on Mac targeting a Linux image.
Create a hello world dotnet container, then do the same in a modern language. Then compare image size and resource consumption. Then imagine you're running tens of thousands of containers in a proper SaaS microservices model, and it'll make sense :)
> Create a hello world dotnet container
Does this version improve or streamline the numerous options for web dev like Razor, Blazor etc? Anyone can comment on which is actually being popular
Razor is still the "default" and "Razor Pages" has a different brand name, but just means "Razor with more things in the main .razor file and fewer code-behind .razor.cs files and less of an MVC approach".
Blazor mostly only matters if you want your frontend to also be Razor. At that point you've got the fork between Blazor using SignalR for HTML pipes from Razor files to the client versus Blazor running client-side in WASM with a Virtual DOM renderer based on Razor.
Blazor seems popular among some groups that want everything in C# rather than needing as much of a Typescript frontend. Blazor WASM bundles a full version of the CLR into WASM so mostly only popular in places where you don't need to optimize the initial web bundle.
I've worked with .NET for over 10 years and we built our startup on top of it. Here are my thoughts: Pros: * Stability * Very decent standard library * Good balance between productivity and robustness * Great package management * Extremely easy to upgrade, so essentially free goodies (performance) every year or so Cons: * Very MSFT dominated (obviously) * Subpar tooling outside of Windows (I'm looking at you C# Dev K…
Why is EF regarded as such a good ORM? I've encountered countless bugs in different repos related to its stateful nature after many years in .NET. Personally I found it completely illogical for my ORM to maintain state. I just want it to hold my schema and build queries.
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> I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma There are plenty of real issues that are not the enterprise stigma. I built a backend web api this year with it and C# is fantastic. EF Core is truly one of the best ORMs I've ever used. That said, I regret that decision and won't be using it again for any new projects. Honestly it looks like Microsoft is distracted and…
I'm the same. I'm both a Python and C# developer. I use Python for all my personal projects, and given the choice, for MOST projects I'll always pitch Python first, Django gives me the strengths of something like ASP .NET / EF Core, but without feeling like they're building more abandonware. I really love Blazor and heck even MAUI, but will they still be there in 10 years? Probably, will Microsoft have some new proje…
I usually feel ambivalence with announcements of new C# versions. Yes, a lot of great features have been added over the years. But it also introduces some amount of cognitive load and confusion. Take the first new feature in the example: > Field-backed properties simplify property declarations by eliminating the need for explicit backing fields. The compiler generates the backing field automatically, making your code…
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Imo, you're criticizing "enterprise" development, not .NET/C#.
And .NET is the language of choice for "Enterprise". So that's what the majority of jobs are. Where as large 'tech' companies don't tend to be like this.
Yes, again, you're criticizing the practices of enterprises not dotnet. It has nothing to do with how "dotnet shops operate".
I'm at a dotnet shop who doesn't work anything like that. I've been at multiple of them. It has nothing to do with dotnet itself.
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Just stick with the classic frameworks. Razor works great as does MVC WebAPI
I tried Razor. It's mature, has tons of features, and it's very fast. But it only really solves rendering HTML. You will still need to integrate Vite somehow to use modern CSS, TS, etc. And if you do that, why even use Razor to begin with? Also, hot reload is garbage. C# will never get close in speed or features to something like Vite.