Which I guess was the whole premise of the .NET ecosystem, so score one for Redmond, I guess!

Apropos, what do they do for fun? I'll probably never meet 100 .NET devs in my life so honest question.

No, really, I'm facing more issues from Cursor based based on a year-old upstream version of VSCode than from this, heh...

VS Code on a Mac works great and with the ability to run SQL Server in Docker you can have the old stack right there on your Mac.

Running TypeScript on the server is a well trodden path. It can be pretty fast too. Python on the client, not so much.

I don't get this mindset. I'd much rather have the new guy spend a few months getting used to a new language, than have an organization where everyone uses different languages. It's a nightmare a few years down the road when you have 20 different projects in 15 different languages and the people who built them are mostly gone.

People are way too lenient with this stuff IMO. The goal of an organization should be to have one solution to each problem. For example we use .NET for backend and React for frontend. You don't need anything else. People love to talk about the right tool for the job, it's all BS. You can make pretty much any kind of website using react and pretty much any kind of backend using C#. The only reason to choose anything else is preference.

And sure maybe you have some data science people who need python, thats fine. Just don't have one guy using Py, another using R and yet others using Matlab. That's just asking for trouble. Pick one, stick to it. If you're going to make a change then migrate everything. If it's not worth that then the new tool probably isn't such a big deal after all.

Aah that explains it.

For some reason, .NET is extremely popular outside of major tech hubs (notably in Europe), where you're much more likely to work for (without loss of generality) Ikea than for Google.

sure, but only if you're doing something that actually demands it - and actual innovation - instead of usual 'lets repackage XYZ as SaaS and growthhack' strategy.

Documentation is vastly better compared to Java ones, it's like day and night, LINQ is vastly superior to anything that Java offered - but i haven't used java in a very long time. And every time i had to write java it felt like i went backwards in time by 5-10 years.

If i remember right Java's webserver beats ASP.NET in performance benchmarks but .net's one performance is good enough that it does not matter until you hit really big usercount - and at that point you usually have to rethink your architecture anyways.

But frankly .net is still mostly Microsoft Java but with better developer ergonomics in my opinion. It did shed a lot of overengineered OOP legacy from .net framework days though and we're seeing major performance improvements with every version.

I might be biased from having worked with production F#, but it feels more like functional is making its way into C#, as the general industry sees value in functional principles. So F# feels like its more here to stay?

In c# I can evaluate complex linq data transformation in watch window in visual studio during debug, at fly.

In cpp I cannot. Not even nested evaluation is working.

    let! a = fetchA() and! b = fetchB()

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fs...