I love .Net. It’s my favorite language and you can tell that it was written by competent adults that know how to design a language and the surrounding framework. I used .Net from 2007 with Windows CE/Compact Framework all the way to 2020.

That being said, I would never tell am aspiring developer, especially one with a CS degree to learn it.

Besides, Microsoft, it’s not used heavily in most companies that pay top of the market and it’s definitely not the language that I would chose to use if I had to go through a generic coding interview.

Yes, I’m well aware that most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are “enterprise developers” and many use .Net. While .Net has been cross platform for years, it’s still the choice of mostly old school Windows shops.