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I hear you, but .NET is open source now, and comes with a large open source community. </nitpick>

• eropple 11y ago
  Calling it a large open-source community is perhaps stretching the definition. When I look at the Java open-source universe, or the Ruby one, or even the Node one, I see a lot more activity and a lot more generally applicable, useful stuff coming out of any of those compared to .NET. Which is not to say .NET isn't fine--I use it for many things because I enjoy the language and what it lets me effectively target (you're not targeting the PlayStation 4 with MRI or Node). But the community still, despite very strong and laudable efforts from Microsoft, strikes me as anemic.
  • alkonaut 11y ago
    Depends on what you count into the community I guess. Making a language that already has a very large community open source, means that bit of open source has a very large community. Only a small fraction is active in developing open source applications on it, but a large user community is also a great asset.
    • eropple 11y ago
      Enh. Fair point, but if it's inactive, it kind of hurts at the same time. Everybody waiting for somebody else to fix a problem, nobody's contributing so we won't worry about issues or pull requests...