Ask HN: A gift to C# developers?

2 points by zaroth 11y ago ↗ HN

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!

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Fourkeys 11y ago ↗

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.

FesterCluck 11y ago ↗

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.

stale 11y ago ↗

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/

EnderMB 11y ago ↗

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.