news.ycombinator.com• Feb 19, 2018• 1 min read
Ask HN: Can .NET win back developers?I'm employed as a .NET developer, but I have typically avoided .NET for personal/side projects in favor of open source tech stacks. I think most of us can agree that under Steve Ballmer's lead, Microsoft did a lot of damage to the .NET ecosystem with the stack being proprietary, full of vendor lock-in, not cross-platform, etc. But all of that is changing under Satya Nadella's leadership. Is it winning back developers?.NET Core is now free, open-source, runs on MacOS, Linux, and Windows, and as of December 2017, includes ASP.NET Core which supports Nginx, Apache, Docker, in addition to IIS.C# as a programming language is quite good (subjective, obviously). The .NET library is also very extensive - it had to be, since few developers were willing to build free/open-source libraries for a proprietary framework.That being said, .NET still gives a lot of us a bad taste in our mouths, and I still don't see much mention of .NET anywhere on Hacker News. Is there any evidence that Microsoft's ef
