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Meh. In the end, Microsoft will betray those who trusted it. Long term, better just to pretend it does not exist and never, ever depend on anything with Microsoft name on it.
Or please elaborate a little what you mean by "betraying".
Seems like great news but I wonder if these releases help the .NET ecosystem in a meaningful anyway. Almost all .NET developers I know still use Windows even on cloud.
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For most businesses with less than a hundred instances, the cost is negligible and probably is cheaper than the companies Slack bill.
Windows server licenses[1]!? Even looking at EC2 it's nearly 3x more expensive to run Windows than Linux, at a glance[2]. [1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing?rtc=1 [2]: https://parquantix.com/linux-windows-aws-cost-comparison/
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I just jumped on the .NET Core gravy train after 6+ years of Ruby on Rails development. I feel so productive and confident working with .NET. Ill be riding this rollercoaster with you for a while!
Technically it isn't .net core anymore, but just .net. The many different versions were quite confusing. I am happy that they are now unified.
I'm just glad the number-space has been sorted out. It was annoying to learn that ".NET 2", ".NET Standard 2" and ".NET Core 2" are very different things.
Seems like great news but I wonder if these releases help the .NET ecosystem in a meaningful anyway. Almost all .NET developers I know still use Windows even on cloud.
If you plan on shipping server software, I expect it to run on Linux, particularly in a container.
It has been rumored for years that Microsoft might acquire Ubuntu. This is an interesting move though not proof of any such future merger. All of that said, it would be nice if Microsoft had the same level of cooperation with Fedora and another distro or two as well. (And where the hell is support for .NET Core on FreeBSD???)
> Microsoft might acquire Ubuntu That would make a lot of sense, despite the backlash it would generate. Remember when they acquired GitHub, developers were vouching to move over to GitLab. Yet very few did. The same would probably happen if they acquire Ubuntu. Developers would vouch to move to another distribution, yet few will, because Ubuntu is so much nicer to use than the competition.
I'll never trust Microsoft again after all they did in the 2000s. Transitively, I'll never trust any comparably sized company.
Seems like great news but I wonder if these releases help the .NET ecosystem in a meaningful anyway. Almost all .NET developers I know still use Windows even on cloud.
I was talking with a Microsoft employee that works in azure. Something like 60% of their VMs are Linux.
Not everyone who uses Azure is a "Microsoft shop", in terms of programming tech stack. Plenty of people use Azure as a cross-cloud redundancy play, or because they do business with Amazon competitors that refuse to have their data on AWS.
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Technically it isn't .net core anymore, but just .net. The many different versions were quite confusing. I am happy that they are now unified.
Old .net has become ".net framework". I'm just glad the number-space has been sorted out. It was annoying to learn that ".NET 2", ".NET Standard 2" and ".NET Core 2" are very different things.
From my understanding, thats not quite right. AFAIK framework was adapted to differentiate it from standard, core and mono.
Meh. In the end, Microsoft will betray those who trusted it. Long term, better just to pretend it does not exist and never, ever depend on anything with Microsoft name on it.
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Does visual studio run on linux yet? That's my rubicon for taking .net seriously. It's not just about the runtime, the tooling has to be present as well.
JetBrains Rider on Ubuntu/Mac is probably a better development experience than Visual Studio on Windows.