As full stack .net dev, I am so disappointed every “who is hiring” thread. I would be game to join a trendier group of like minded devs but if you get one .net posting you are lucky, and it’s most likely rockstar.
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It takes time to shift developers.
It is soon 10 years. With 14 years of closed source before. But honestly, it is not .NET which is the problem maker, it is Visual Studio on Windows. Because that is the thing which cost and the thing which only runs on Windows. I hope they fix it in favor of VS Code (which looks good right now).
But I agree. It takes time.
The roslyn compiler is open source since 2014.
I guess it's fine if people don't like .net but I think the open source part is not that relevant.
Mono never got traction within the startup culture. In part, because it operated in a legal grey area for many years regarding MS patents for web (or web adjacent) technologies like ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
I think saying that Microsoft started open sourcing .NET in 2007 feels a bit disingenuous. Plus, wasn't it source-available under the Microsoft Reference License? Regardless, .NET was still tied to Windows unless you wanted to use Mono (which was slow and had an uncertain future).
If you were someone who developed on Mac or Linux and deployed to Linux, you couldn't choose .NET in 2007 or 2014. Even in 2016, are you going to choose a brand-new ASP.NET Core? Microsoft announced .NET Core 1.0 at the Red Hat Summit in 2016 which isn't exactly an endorsement that the company thought it was the future of .NET. It seemed like Microsoft was trying to open up just enough to hook a company on .NET Core and then tell them "well actually, you should really upgrade to the real .NET Framework on Windows" when they ran into problems. That's not what happened, but Microsoft certainly hadn't committed to .NET Core in 2016. Their messaging was "well, Red Hat will offer support for this thing we made."
If I didn't have a Windows PC in 2015, I couldn't do .NET development (Mono aside). If I wanted to deploy to Linux in 2015, I couldn't do .NET development (Mono aside). The open source part matters to lots of people because .NET simply wasn't a choice for those who didn't want to be beholden to Windows and licensing until recently. People definitely ignored .NET because it simply wasn't an option for them.
As for access to windows, to be honest I think that's pretty easy to have. Run on general purpose hardware, it's not that expensive.
I think that having access to a Mac is relatively harder than having access to a Windows machine.
When .net core came out I was under the impression that the product was the future of .net but maybe I was living in a bubble.
Anyway, I understand your point but I still think that the disinterest towards .net is tied to a generalized adversion to Microsoft (probably deserved) but not really related to the tech itself nor it's availability on Linux or Mac.