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The new .net has been amazing for us. Biggest QoL improvement would be the self contained deployments. We do B2B software, and being able to email a customer a zip that is guaranteed to work on any windows server without bullshit has been beyond incredible.

Our customers love the experience too. We switched to SQLite for persistence, so there are literally zero prereqs to an install now.

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One of the reasons I love Go. Does the .zip file also contain the runtime? E.g., nothing is required to be installed on the remote system?

Yes. .net now has self contained builds. The whole deploy can be a single executable with some caveats.

And Delphi could do that 20 years ago. I keep blaming Java for the big detour.

And Java could do that 22 years ago[1]. Blame people that were too cheap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior_JET

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