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I just wanted to chime in on this. IMO It will happen more often now, but .NET had/has a higher cost to entry (higher than say, ruby/py/java) which is the real
by dbnoch 9y ago
I just wanted to chime in on this. IMO It will happen more often now, but .NET had/has a higher cost to entry (higher than say, ruby/py/java) which is the real reason why SV startups haven't been on board.
It is arguably also a bad business decision to shell out $$ for a language that isn't used at your company.
- bradford 9y ago> .NET had/has a higher cost to entry > It is arguably also a bad business decision to shell out $$ for a language that isn't used at your company. What cost(s) are you thinking of here? .NET doesn't cost anything (monetarily). Some of the tools cost money but you can also get by in the .NET world with a command-prompt and text editor (I did as a hobbyist for quite some time). I might be misunderstanding your statements, but it's also possible that you're misunderstanding .NET, I'm just trying to clarify which one it :)
- recentdarkness 9y agoOne needs to invest $$ because you pay money for the developers time to create software
- perfectstorm 9y ago> but .NET had/has a higher cost to entry (higher than say, ruby/py/java) as opposed to Java developers who are hmm...free ?
- oblio 9y agoFor a long time many third party components were commercial. A lot more than in the Ruby, Python or Java ecosystems, for example. Things are slowly moving towards Open Source and cross platform, but .NET is far behind Java at this moment. It is moving fast, though.
- wutwutwutwut 9y agoI've been doing .NET development since 2006 and have never had to buy commercial components. Every time I have needed something there has been free/open source stuff. I'm guessing it depends on what type of software you are working on?
- sbergot 9y agoFor a long time there was no free option to validate json schema with the latest norm.