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Why enterprises use .NET and C# technologies? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by speaker_hat@lemmy.one to c/experienced_devs@programming.dev

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I looked for Senior Software Developer positions, and one of the things that I've noticed is that lots of enterprises look for people with experience with technologies such as .NET and C#.

I personally HATE Microsoft and their platforms. From my experience they take all the fun from developing by creating stupid compile errors with their stupid gigantic Visual Studio and buggy dependencies. Not to mention their ridiculous resources greedy and unsecured Windows OS! Also there are no healthy and independent communities around a their technologies. They don't open source much of their technologies so it would be easier to hack their tools, and harder to make security patches.

Why enterprises do that for themselves and for their developers?

Do you think enterprises will make a turn in this attitude?

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[–] count_borrell@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, from an enterprise point-of-view, .Net has the same advantages as Java (stability, runs everywhere, backed by a large corp) but is fundamental better designed and doesn't come with the potential legal baggage of being owned by Oracle.

I would argue that .Net is one of the best techs that Microsoft is producing at the moment. I've used it on and off for a number of years and haven't done any development targeting Windows in a decade. It's all be running on Linux servers. The dotNet works great there.

And, 100% agree with using Rider. My hierarchy of .Net IDEs is Rider->Notepad++->Visual Studio Code->manually adjusting the memory on my computer using magnets->Full Visual Studio (whatever they are calling it these days).

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly. C# just works for almost everything and there's very little criticism I could level against it. Modern multiplatform UI is in a bit of a weird spot right now and their product naming is absolutely terrible, but that's about it.
^(I^ ^even^ ^think^ ^that^ ^Visual^ ^Studio^ ^is^ ^pretty^ ^decent,^ ^although^ ^I^ ^still^ ^prefer^ ^Rider^ ^and^ ^Code.)^

Unless there's a good reason to not use C#, like microcontroller programming, it's become pretty much my go-to language, pun not intended.

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you develop .NET over Ubuntu?

[–] iammike@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Yes absolutely