.NET

“Modern .NET excels in that, including in the classic DOS installer model of "just copy the files, no installer required"”

“for many years, Microsoft management had exactly that attitude, expecting that anyone that cared about performance would be writting COM in C++”

“The dotnet ecosystem is so well developed and rich, I expect to be paid a huge premium if I ever have to deal with Java again.”

“The .Net side was good initially, but it just did not have the same depth as the C++ side already had at that point.”

“C# AOT exists in various forms since .NET 1.0, starting with NGEN, Native AOT is only the very last implementation”

“.Net works on Linux and Microsoft is as friendly towards open source and open standards as a Big Tech company can be.”

“the .NET infrastructure, which allows much more runtime introspection than the usual compiled programming languages”

“The standard libraries of these two zoo's of programming languages vastly eclipse what the discussed languages offer”

“out of the box with a few packages for databases, logging, etc is so pleasant you don't even think about it”

“if you truly want a write-once, work everywhere platform without any kind of a required runtime, there is DotNet”

“A copy which has had value types (Java's ongoing Project Valhalla) from the start, and reified generics for as long as it had generics.”

“the whole system of tooling in .NET has never left me feeling like I was pigeonholed into doing things in stupid, self-flagelating ways”

“stuff like Java or .NET, while definitely better than C or COBOL... did not really deliver in terms of productivity boost”

“has almost all these upsides, but with a concurrency model (async/await) that is (now) more transferable to other languages”

“The .Net that started as Enterprise Server Stuff is now kinda sorta 'Whatever' about versioning, stability, roadmaps, and platform planning.”

“I still work primarily in .NET. Most of the things that were technological issues about .NET Framework got absolved by what was first .NET Core”

“The amount of third-party (non-testing related) dependencies needed for most .NET applications is very manageable”

“Massive standard library, with a consistent and wide focus on correctness, ergonomics, and performance across the board.”

“I think a lot of people would save themselves a lot of time and headaches if they reached for .NET or something higher level.”

“the kind of customers that were affected by the breaking changes, between Framework and Core, decided to keep the old stuff running”

“cross-platform support, performance gains and newer C# versions are worth more than the stability of .NET Framework”

“Modern .NET isn't even difficult to avoid allocations, with the Span API and the work they've done to minimize unnecessary copies/allocs within the std lib.”

“a set of changes in JIT that allows almost completely eliminate the abstraction cost in certain scenarios”

“A simple modern Dotnet monolith with Postgres on a Linux server could deliver a much better end user experience”

“I think .NET is one of the few projects Microsoft maintains that I admire that feel like they care a lot about quality”

“I love the new features of .Net, but in my experience a lot of software written in .Net has very large code bases”

“they broke backward compatibility on so many libraries, it's a non trivial effort to convert a complex code base to core”

“the .net framework fossilised in term of functionality”

“The update was smooth: for the .net 9 services, I only had to update our base container images and the csproj target frameworks.”

“I am 100% in agreement that .NET dev team is doing an amazing job, but it's precisely because of their continued shakeups”

“2020 State of the Octoverse security report showed that .NET ecosystem has on average the lowest number of transitive dependencies.”

“C# is one of those languages where you don't mean to, but you can't help just creating tons of files/boilerplate/etc.”

“.NET code, especially when tuned, still has significantly more knobs in your code to tune and make faster.”

“.NET is very "batteries included" as well so you don't need a huge base-line of competing open source packages”

“C# + .NET is from my perspective the most developed and most mature eco system when it comes to business applications”

“With C# (.NET) I can click on "install package" in my editor and within seconds it's downloaded and in my project.”

“constantly changing "best practices" from MS so the thing you wrote last year doesn't look anything structurally like what you're doing now”

“Upgrading from the old .NET Framework is bit more challenging, but we have also successfully upgraded a couple of Framework projects to modern .NET without too many issues.”

“Upgrading a modern .NET (Core) version often means changing just versions in the project file.”

“dev environments with direct connection to Smalltalk, like Java and .NET, are the closest we get to it in mainstream languages”