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Honest question: why in this day and age would anyone choose to develop web based applications using a microsoft technology? Given their history ("Embrace, Extend, Extinguish") and the additional cost for software licensing, should you want to deploy on a Microsoft platform, what advantage does this have over any other stack?

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.NET Core is open-source and runs on Linux. C# is a fantastic language, .NET is a great framework.

I'd give you a more developed answer but I don't feel like this is a developed question. Everyone has their reasons for using what they use. To act like .NET is instantly useless because of who contributes the most to the product is unreasonable.

TBH, I didn't think I'd ever use Microsoft stuff again after moving to a macbook for developing and deploying on Linux. However, the underwhelming macbook hardware of late drove me to purchase a surface book, which I now love. Then, developed a fairly complex python web app that requires anaconda and a GPU based server. One thing led to another, and this week I deployed a python flask/gevent server web app on windows server 2016 using IIS as a reverse proxy. It turns out IIS and windows server is actually great to work with. I'm quite pleased with it all and not a big deal to license a copy of windows server, it is a pleasure to work with. In the future, looking forward to making my next web app with Visual Studio, C# language and .net core framework.

You already know the answer to this.

I develop applications using TypeScript because it is (a) superior to native JavaScript, (b) open source, (c) has a very clear exit strategy in the unlikely event that Microsoft does something stupid with it.

Performance, security and tooling only matched by Java based languages.

Also many of us do actually enjoy using Windows desktops and servers.

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