Net core is a slow moving project for sure, and it's not at a stage to use in production yet, but it'll get there and I look forward to further improvements made in 2018.
At least that's my impression from being on HN for the last decade, and working mainly in MS back-end languages in the UK.
The other one I never see mentioned in the UK is Oracle, I've only had Oracle mentioned to me IRL once, and that's because the local council is inexplicably moving from MS SQL to Oracle for reporting, but they're super incompetent.
I’m french and I only know one person who’ve been on the Java path, and he’s not even working in France. I of course know companies working on Java, but not that much (not at all, if you except those working for Android) and suddenly it becomes crystal clear.
Thanks again.
I've worked in startups and digital agencies throughout my career, and C# is everywhere in the latter. It's a lot harder to find startup work, but there are people building on the .NET framework.
You can happily make a career in .NET without ever working in an enterprise capacity.
The only place .NET appears to be discounted is in SV, at least from those I've talked to. Outside of that it's fairly mainstream but obviously you see more of it if you work with it and write/talk about it.
I think it’s the US in general and SV in particular bias of HN: there is an under-representation of the meat-and-potatoes software industry. The one where an average employment is 10 years, and an average employee is 40.