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A very common modern setup is PostgreSQL, C#/.NET, Linux & using JetBrains Rider for the IDE. You don't have to go all in Microsoft to use C#, F# or .NET.

Also .NET has been about "run everywhere on any platform" as their tagline for quite a few years now.

They have had plenty of community fumbles without question. I can't speak to those though. I've seen lots of vocal high up Microsoft employees try to win those fights on the side of the community but no idea what happens internally.

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    A very common modern setup is PostgreSQL, C#/.NET, Linux & using JetBrains Rider for the IDE

You just described the startup I'm at. All devs are on Arm64 MacBooks and we deploy to Arm64 AWS T4g Linux instances. I'm all VS Code, others are primarily Rider.

.NET is a highly underrated platform for backend; it always puzzles me when teams think about moving from TypeScript to Rust or Go instead of C# because it seems a much smaller leap from TypeScript.

I'm itching to try and deep dive into go as a C# dev. I'm getting sick of enterprise C#, even if it is .NET8

I guess the grass is always greener somewhere

Worst part for me about Go is how exceptions are usually basically handled the way that they would be with a Result<T> in Rust, but without an actual Result<T> type. That and how nulls are handled, feels like the worst of both worlds.

Maybe startup C# feels very different; it feels much more like TypeScript and I more or less write C# like I would write TypeScript.

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