[Deukhoofd]

Also because Java, .NET, etc. all have very expansive standard libraries. You don't need to import most stuff, as it's already built-in.

[tracker1]

Very true... I'm more experienced with .Net, but usually when you bring in something, it's much more of a compositional library or framework for doing something... like a testing harness (XUnit), web framework (FastEndpoints), etc. No so much in terms of basic utilities, where the std library and extensions for LINQ cover a lot of ground, even if you aren't using LINQ expressions themselves.

[kelvinjps10]

But then you depend on Microsoft for everything. I prefer python where it's battery Included but you depend on a foundation

[grishka]

Hasn't .net been open-source for like 10 years?

[szatkus]

I mean, Apache Commons are still widely used. But it's just a handful of libraries maintaned by one organisation.