[sieep]

.NET is really good nowadays & does well cross platform, absolutely worth trying.

[olivia-banks]

I have to use it (C#) for a required class in college, and I've been pleasantly surprised. I'm always a little suspicious of platforms backed by large companies, but I think at this point that's sorta an unavoidable reality.

[sieep]

Luckily .NET, the compiler, and such are open source now so Microsoft really just handles the big picture stuff. Its got great performance and the new .NET 10 might be my favorite backend runtime ever created.

[mulmen]

Is it fully open source so it can survive being abandoned by Microsoft?

[sieep]

From my understanding, .NET, C# F# are all open source. The main thing in the tool chain that isnt is Visual Studio but most people can get by with VS Code

[jayd16]

https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet

Check it out yourself.

[globalnode]

Theres also the danger of microsoft being required to switch it off over sanctioning to your geographic region so be aware of that if you live outside the US

[dlahoda]

ide is proprietary, inuding vs code plugin

[HeavyStorm]

Yes.