Sure. I like Linux and OSS. If anything happens that is unexpected I can trace it back to the source code that makes up my programming environment. I actually like C# as a programming language. It's .NET that's effed up. .NET development happens behind clicks and VS interfaces. The resulting configuration ends up in REALLY unreadable XML files, sometimes obfuscated behind object ids even. I like flat-file human-readable configuration. Also, Entity Framework can just curl up in a ball and die somewhere alone and crying. It's the most useless ORM I have ever worked with. And the documentation on it is just plain wrong often. Following a basic example can lead to results different from those advertised in documentation.
This is all born from experience. I was working on a project I believed in and came to it after the stack used was crystallized and unchangeable. I ended up throwing my hands up in disgust and leaving.
> .NET development happens behind clicks and VS interfaces.
That hasn't really been the case since .Net Core (aka .Net 5/6) replaced .Net Framework. You can develop entirely from the terminal if that is your choice or use Rider instead of Visual Studio if you want a cross-platform IDE.
> The resulting configuration ends up in REALLY unreadable XML files
You can now put the entire framework straight into the executables' directory, no more system-wide XML files. The concept of pre-installed .Net is legacy.
Consider this toast burnt for life. I am not about to trust anything coming from Redmond for life. This is in spite of having great respect for things coming from Microsoft Research. I'll happily use their toy OS for my games but if I intend to do serious work I will not interact with Microsoft offerings except ephemerally.
- .Net Framework made a bunch of unfortunate design decisions.
- You hated .Net Framework as a direct result.
- .Net Core (aka .Net 5/6) fixed the problems, went OSS, went cross-platform, de-coupled from proprietary tooling.
"Consider this toast burnt for life." I don't understand; if your disdain for .Net is meant to be technically founded then technical (and governance) improvements should address it but yet it doesn't here.
Can you unravel why them essentially going through your laundry list of problems and fixing them one by one has left the "toast burnt for life?"
Yes. I have never been burnt by these other software tools. I like them better. They work as advertised and any new features are new features, not fixes.
Not sure when your experiences are from, but in .net core they redid the csproj format which is much smaller and human readable (I often just edit the XML instead of using the designer). I think most (all?) of the source for .net core is available so well.
I dont know EF well but there is a rewritten core version
