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What about C#? That being said, I might just be accustomed to all the boilerplate.

by mosen 4y ago

carlivar 4y ago
Still a lot of Windows baggage with C#. It's changing, but I think most c# devs are still learning fundamental unix and docker stuff. So you'll get an overhead with C# too, just not in technical performance.
- GiorgioG 4y ago
  Source? As a .NET developer I can tell you that there are plenty of us with Linux/Docker experience. There is zero Windows baggage with C# in .NET (Core). Your information is out of date.
  - carlivar 4y ago
    I work for a C# shop. However maybe the signal is ex-Microsoft rather than C# itself, when I think about it more. We have lots of ex-MSFT.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Projects making use of Sitecore, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server CLR,... GUI frameworks out of Redmond Graphical tooling to deal with process dumps, etw data, and profiler information only available on VS.
    - GiorgioG 4y ago
      > Projects making use of Sitecore, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server CLR, What projects? None of those are forced on you or have any references to them built into .NET Core. I've been building .NET apps since 1.0 reached beta (in 2001?) I can count on one hand how many times in total that I've worked with those systems. This argument is a hell of a reach. > GUI frameworks out of Redmond The upcoming Microsoft MAUI is cross-platform (no, Microsoft isn't building support for Linux, but there are open source efforts working on it.) You can use https://avaloniaui.net https://avaloniaui.net or https://platform.uno https://platform.uno > Graphical tooling to deal with process dumps, etw data, and profiler information only available on VS. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dotnettrace-for-net-core-tracing-in-perfview-speedscope-chromium-event-trace-profiling-flame-graphs-and-more https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dotnettrace-for-net-core-trac... There's also https://github.com/SachiraChin/dotnet-monitor-ui https://github.com/SachiraChin/dotnet-monitor-ui You can use JetBrains rider to profile in Linux/MacOS as well: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Profiling_Applications.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Profiling_Applications.... If you don't want to use .NET, you obviously don't have to.
- lovich 4y ago
  Switched from a career of a windows/.net/c# to a max/ruby/js shop. Docker skills transferred. Had to learn Unix commands but it didn’t feel much different from cmd/powershell
bin_bash 4y ago
Biggest downside is you're likely committing yourself to the Microsoft stack and a single vendor for most of your technology. I don't think it's necessarily the wrong decision but you have to decide if it's right for your project.
- GiorgioG 4y ago
  100% inaccurate/outdated (by 5 years) info. I've run .NET Core applications on Linux/Docker/K8s + Postgres. The only Microsoft 'stack' there is .NET itself.
  - Nullabillity 4y ago
    .NET Core is still absolutely designed to nudge you into the MS stack. - EFCore is MSSQL first, even if other options are provided - Many libraries ship with two implementations: an over-engineered Windowsy version that barely works (with a big scary warning that it should never be used in production), and a thin wrapper around some Azure service - Important tooling like the debugger (which wouldn't be so necessary if .NET had halfway decent support for printf debugging, but here we are...) is locked to be compatible with VS and (MS' build of) VSCode, despite both of them using supposedly open (and Microsoft-pushed!) standards like DAP - The community is really culty, the response to "X is broken when using the non-MS-Stack alternative" always seems to be "well use the standard MS solution then" - It's practically open source in name only, because the build engineering is so convoluted that it's nearly impossible to find the canonical source code of core features like the standard libraries
    - GiorgioG 4y ago
      - EF Core is not MSSQL first. EF Core is an abstraction layer and is in no way tied to Sql Server. In fact, Microsoft's own getting started tutorial uses Sqlite (1). I've personally used the Postgres drivers in production and they are as good/production-ready as Microsoft's SQL library for EF Core. - "Many libraries ship with two implementations..." I've yet to come across these "many" libraries in the 5 years since I've been building services with .NET Core. "The community is really culty" - I'm not sure where this is coming from. It's hard to refute such vague criticisms. - "It's practically open source in name only" - Here is the base class library source: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/libraries https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/libraries or https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/releases https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/releases (depending on what version you're looking for) 1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/overview/first-app?tabs=netcore-cli https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/overvie...

What about C#? That being said, I might just be accustomed to all the boilerplate.

by mosen 4y ago

What about C#? That being said, I might just be accustomed to all the boilerplate.

Still a lot of Windows baggage with C#. It's changing, but I think most c# devs are still learning fundamental unix and docker stuff. So you'll get an overhead with C# too, just not in technical performance.

GiorgioG 4y ago
Source? As a .NET developer I can tell you that there are plenty of us with Linux/Docker experience. There is zero Windows baggage with C# in .NET (Core). Your information is out of date.
- carlivar 4y ago
  I work for a C# shop. However maybe the signal is ex-Microsoft rather than C# itself, when I think about it more. We have lots of ex-MSFT.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Projects making use of Sitecore, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server CLR,... GUI frameworks out of Redmond Graphical tooling to deal with process dumps, etw data, and profiler information only available on VS.
  - GiorgioG 4y ago
    > Projects making use of Sitecore, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server CLR, What projects? None of those are forced on you or have any references to them built into .NET Core. I've been building .NET apps since 1.0 reached beta (in 2001?) I can count on one hand how many times in total that I've worked with those systems. This argument is a hell of a reach. > GUI frameworks out of Redmond The upcoming Microsoft MAUI is cross-platform (no, Microsoft isn't building support for Linux, but there are open source efforts working on it.) You can use https://avaloniaui.net https://avaloniaui.net or https://platform.uno https://platform.uno > Graphical tooling to deal with process dumps, etw data, and profiler information only available on VS. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dotnettrace-for-net-core-tracing-in-perfview-speedscope-chromium-event-trace-profiling-flame-graphs-and-more https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dotnettrace-for-net-core-trac... There's also https://github.com/SachiraChin/dotnet-monitor-ui https://github.com/SachiraChin/dotnet-monitor-ui You can use JetBrains rider to profile in Linux/MacOS as well: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Profiling_Applications.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Profiling_Applications.... If you don't want to use .NET, you obviously don't have to.
lovich 4y ago
Switched from a career of a windows/.net/c# to a max/ruby/js shop. Docker skills transferred. Had to learn Unix commands but it didn’t feel much different from cmd/powershell

bin_bash 4y ago

Biggest downside is you're likely committing yourself to the Microsoft stack and a single vendor for most of your technology. I don't think it's necessarily the wrong decision but you have to decide if it's right for your project.

GiorgioG 4y ago
100% inaccurate/outdated (by 5 years) info. I've run .NET Core applications on Linux/Docker/K8s + Postgres. The only Microsoft 'stack' there is .NET itself.
- Nullabillity 4y ago
  .NET Core is still absolutely designed to nudge you into the MS stack. - EFCore is MSSQL first, even if other options are provided - Many libraries ship with two implementations: an over-engineered Windowsy version that barely works (with a big scary warning that it should never be used in production), and a thin wrapper around some Azure service - Important tooling like the debugger (which wouldn't be so necessary if .NET had halfway decent support for printf debugging, but here we are...) is locked to be compatible with VS and (MS' build of) VSCode, despite both of them using supposedly open (and Microsoft-pushed!) standards like DAP - The community is really culty, the response to "X is broken when using the non-MS-Stack alternative" always seems to be "well use the standard MS solution then" - It's practically open source in name only, because the build engineering is so convoluted that it's nearly impossible to find the canonical source code of core features like the standard libraries
  - GiorgioG 4y ago
    - EF Core is not MSSQL first. EF Core is an abstraction layer and is in no way tied to Sql Server. In fact, Microsoft's own getting started tutorial uses Sqlite (1). I've personally used the Postgres drivers in production and they are as good/production-ready as Microsoft's SQL library for EF Core. - "Many libraries ship with two implementations..." I've yet to come across these "many" libraries in the 5 years since I've been building services with .NET Core. "The community is really culty" - I'm not sure where this is coming from. It's hard to refute such vague criticisms. - "It's practically open source in name only" - Here is the base class library source: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/libraries https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/libraries or https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/releases https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/releases (depending on what version you're looking for) 1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/overview/first-app?tabs=netcore-cli https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/overvie...