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I'm more and more confused by everyone that bashes the MS stack because it doesn't have the OSS community that the other stacks do. I'd really love to hear what OSS projects there are for the Python/Ruby/JVM/etc languages which don't have equivalents for .Net. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but my experience on .Net has always been such that I can find a project to meet my needs. Sure my target OS is Windows, so the OS interop is not an issue for me, but for my day to day needs, there is always a solution to be found in the .Net OSS community.

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What are the .NET equivalents of The Ruby Toolbox[1] and pluginGeek[2]?

Also, there are more than 11 times as many Ruby projects at GitHub as there are C# projects[3] (even though .NET developers vastly outnumber Ruby developers).

[1] https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/

[2] http://www.plugingeek.com/ruby

[3] https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E0

And 7 out of those 11 are some sort of 10-line "gems" or whatever they are called. Also GitHub is not the only code sharing web site, just biggest and hypiest. For any of those tools/plugins there is a .NET equivalent, but I don't know a up-to-date page that combines them all as an overview.

To be fair, those appear to be pages which list existing packages, which is not what I was commenting on in my OP. However, I would suggest one of the closest equivalents would be nuget[1]. I think that the history of the languages should be mentioned: Ruby 1.0 was released in 1996[2], while the beta of .Net was only released in 2000, and 1.0 only in 2002[3]. Thus one could perhaps say (maybe unfairly, but nevertheless) that Ruby has had more time for OSS projects to develop. I"m not saying that that is the reason for the abundance of Ruby projects on Github, but I don't believe that the relative lack of .Net projects on Github implies that the needs of a .Net developer is not met by the current OSS offerings.

[1]: http://www.nuget.org/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29 [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

Feel exactly same way. There is always a project. Some of the recent I have used: SignalR, Farseer Physics (one of the best Box2D ports ever), MVVM Light.

Weka is one that I ran into personally a few weeks ago.

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