C# was my 2nd programming language after VB6. I remember in the early 2000s when I was 12, using my best friends computer to try and download VB .NET (he had faster internet) just because it was free, then being extremely disappointed when I couldnt just run my VB6 projects I wanted to run on it... Some years later, during 2007 ~ 2009 I tried out C# and that was life changing.
I wound up going to college after working retail at Disney, then after college, my first job was supposed to be C# but they didn't have the project approved, so I got my first exposure to Python - which I loved, then JavaScript - which I hated but have a love-hate with to this day, and finally C#, but it wasn't .NET 3.5 no, they started using .NET Core, which was... something else, lots of teeth pulling during the original .NET Core days.
So many wonderful projects made with .NET my only complaint is I wish Microsoft would make a cross-platform GUI stack they'd actually stick to, and make it work on Linux too. ;)
I know there's alternatives but nothing beats telling your coworkers "lets just use the built-in" when choosing a GUI stack.
Ungh 17 minutes ago [-]
We abandoned .Net years ago before our third major product rewrite prompted by withdrawal of various bits of tech they said was the next greatest thing. AppFabric, WWF, WCF and Silverlight hit us hard.
Once burned, twice shy.
verst 10 minutes ago [-]
I used to be in the anti .NET camp but for Enterprise applications .NET has been delightful and upgrading between versions has been trivial since .NET 6.
pjc50 13 minutes ago [-]
That's fair enough, but the dust has largely settled on dotnet core. The death of Silverlight was long ago. I think the only thing at risk of abandonment is the native UI situation, which is a mess.
mandeepj 14 minutes ago [-]
Never chase the shiniest toy at work! Give it a year or two to settle down first.
npodbielski 15 minutes ago [-]
WCF, Silverlight... They were terrible. New .net stack is much better.
HeckFeck 6 minutes ago [-]
>I wish Microsoft would make a cross-platform GUI stack
I know this may as well be beseeched of the King of Nod, but if they just made WPF cross platform I'd be delighted beyond words.
joseda-hg 2 minutes ago [-]
Isn't this exactly the point of Avalonia?
dude250711 11 minutes ago [-]
> I wish Microsoft would make a cross-platform GUI stack they'd actually stick to
Sinofsky left a lasting damage. The way things go with LLMs, it might be now pure app-specific Rust instead of any common frameworks....
kvemkon 41 minutes ago [-]
Related: What's new in the .NET 11 runtime (10.11.2026)
I wound up going to college after working retail at Disney, then after college, my first job was supposed to be C# but they didn't have the project approved, so I got my first exposure to Python - which I loved, then JavaScript - which I hated but have a love-hate with to this day, and finally C#, but it wasn't .NET 3.5 no, they started using .NET Core, which was... something else, lots of teeth pulling during the original .NET Core days.
So many wonderful projects made with .NET my only complaint is I wish Microsoft would make a cross-platform GUI stack they'd actually stick to, and make it work on Linux too. ;)
I know there's alternatives but nothing beats telling your coworkers "lets just use the built-in" when choosing a GUI stack.
Once burned, twice shy.
I know this may as well be beseeched of the King of Nod, but if they just made WPF cross platform I'd be delighted beyond words.
Sinofsky left a lasting damage. The way things go with LLMs, it might be now pure app-specific Rust instead of any common frameworks....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50439284
Not quite discriminated unions, but close. With an exhaustive checker with switch statements.
Now if only it made creating unique types easy, so I wouldn’t have to use a library like VOgen, the language would be nearly as good as F#