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Maybe the lack of a strong community is because of Microsoft trying to build it around itself, while always trying to push the new thing. WPF as an example.

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That's the risk of the .NET ecosystem -- depending on any particular technology within the stack is fraught with peril, simply because MSFT has proven it's willing to kill support for any product, service or technology at any time. I personally love C#, and I'm faster and more fluent with it than Java or Scala, but the technical risk plus the much higher TCO relative to a *nix+JVM stack makes it hard for me to justify it for solutions that don't already have MSFT enterprise licensing in place.

I'm the same situation, love C# but the TCO is higher than other languages and we have the Microsoft controlling each step.

lack of a strong community

Ever hear of StackOverflow? There are thousands of tight-knit .NET and C# based communities.

I use it all the time, but it's not exclusive. Love msdn too. But like all communities built around large entities, there will be some product pushing that's not very organic, and gets adopted regardless of merits.

.net based communities =/= .net communities

just because a blog run on Wordpress , it doesnt have to talk about PHP...

You realize that there are millions of questions about .NET on StackOverflow, right?

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