There are currently 244,641 libraries through nuget
https://www.nuget.org/packages
Ps. You can use libraries from f#, c# and VB.net. So as a .net developer, your statement doesn't make any sense.
You could have mentioned the different frameworks. But there is interop through the CLR between languages.
The parent post is correct that the third-party ecosystem (especially OSS) is sorely lacking in quality.
Like look at logging - logging in .net is SO anemic. Even with third-party libs, there are so many features missing that have been in java libs like slf and log4j2 for years, yet we have nothing close in .NET.
Hell, you could just pick a feature from spring and compare to what's available in .NET ecosystem, and you'll be sorely disappointed.
Being able to monitor levels via an administrative endpoint.
A decent rolling file implementation that can compress the archived files.
These are all things I've had to implement (on top of serilog, no less) in the past year.
log4j2 has these out of the box.
LoggingLevelSwitch?
> Being able to monitor levels via an administrative endpoint.
I wrote actuator endpoints for this one, was not hard but yeah.
> A decent rolling file implementation that can compress the archived files.
serilog-sinks-file has FileLifecycleHooks?. There's OOB serilog-sinks-file-gzip but you can also implement your own.
All the sinks for whatever you want.