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Historically it was pricing of Windows IIS and that I'm a person completely enveloped by the Apple ecosystem.

Not sure if either of those points matter 8+ yrs on since I last looked, but I know I'm not the only developer who has these concepts burned into their soul.

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Asp.net core is fully cross-platform and self-hosting, so you do not need to incur Windows/IIS licensing costs.

For this site's audience, I would recommend taking a long look at F# over C#. If you aren't aware of it, it's functional-first, OCaml-inspired, but you have access to all the Asp.net core framework you need (similar to accessing Java from Clojure). A batteries-included framework that seems popular is the "SAFE Stack"[0].

[0]https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/overview/

Given that game dev in Unity is also driven by C# I wouldn't actually be against picking it up as a web dev. But it's hard to find any beginner-friendly resources out there. Is there anything like Heroku, Vercel, Fly, etc that lets you really quick build and deploy a full-stack app? My path to learning a new framework and language is full of half-finished project ideas and this process of quick and easy iteration has proven really useful to me being able to learn something quickly

Genuinely curious if anyone out there has some wisdom to share about this since I know next to nothing about the ecosystem

You can get similiar process as Heroku (just push to github repo and everything automagically deploys) on Azure using App Services. The problem is there is no free tier anymore, although i didn't really look up exact prices. There are plenty of very basic tutorials in official Microsoft documentation, if you search for stuff like "how to deploy .Net core app on azure" you surely find some tutorials that go through whole process from scaffolding basic project to running it in the cloud.

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