>and the fact it's so tied to windows
Dotnet Core is not tied to windows except for certain frameworks like wpf (and there are alternatives for it that work everywhere), credential store.
And it's actually really good to use these days.
Dotnet Core is not tied to windows except for certain frameworks like wpf (and there are alternatives for it that work everywhere), credential store.
And it's actually really good to use these days.
Our team uses C#. We dev on Apple silicon Macs. Some use Rider, others just use VS Code. We build on Linux via GitHub Actions. Ship to prod running AWS t4g Arm64 instances.
C# to me is like TypeScript++. The language, syntax, and core constructs are close enough that anyone with a good handle on JS and TS can pick it up easily and be productive.
C# DevKit is really all you need (and the same plugins you would normally have like GitLens, etc.).
Refactoring experience isn't as good as Rider (JetBrains are kings of refactoring tooling). But for all other cases VS Code is fast and ergonomic.
Rider does have some nice things for supporting working with SQL databases that I do envy once in a while.
For F# - Ionide works great, I like it a lot, integrates seamlessly with existing C# projects.