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Honest question, how many .NET developers actually write stuff for Linux on the server side? How many have a significant user base? I know there are a few des

Honest question, how many .NET developers actually write stuff for Linux on the server side? How many have a significant user base? I know there are a few desktop Linux apps (e.g. Tomboy, and Banshee), but I haven't seen many used in a daemon or as an Apache mod or the like.

sciurus 11y ago
Not many... yet.
- noir_lord 11y ago
  No but I (and I suspect lots of former .net devs) am watching closely. I'd really like to have true first class C# support on Linux. Never really gotten on with Java so a lot of our backend stuff is in Python and PHP.
traskjd 11y ago
We (https://raygun.com https://raygun.com) use a lot of .NET on the server side. We also use golang, node and a few other things, but a lot of .NET, specifically with C#. We're very excited about being able to run on Linux. There's plenty of our back end worker processes that are in C# and being able to move them to Linux will be a big win for us (manageability, cost, etc). I'm not sure what you consider a significant user base, but we do have 40k+ devs on our platform, and we process billions of interactions and software exceptions every month from many of the top 100 web sites and apps globally.
- JBReefer 11y ago
  After looking at your site, you guys should definitely open a New York office.
  - traskjd 11y ago
    Thanks :-) I've just relocated to Seattle to open a second west coast office. East coast or Dublin is next!
throwaway13337 11y ago
I've been writing an multiplayer game server for linux in mono using unity. People complain about a lack of performance of headless unity servers but that hasn't been my experience. It seems very reasonable.
swalsh 11y ago
I did .net development for 8 years, left for ruby because frankly I got a 50k raise to do so, but right now I'm using core for my own projects which run on a Linux server in the cloud. I'm hoping as the platform improves that I'll be able to do it full time once again.
SideburnsOfDoom 11y ago
> Honest question, how many .NET developers actually write stuff for Linux on the server side? very few now, but not much of the server-side .Net apps and services that I see is OS-specific. Reading data from a db and emitting json is not tied to Windows. It could move over quite quickly. This code may be may be hosted on IIS, but if I could port it off that tomorrow onto lighter-weight lower-cost Linux EC2 instances tomorrow I would, and it's an easy sell to the non-technical manager: Save money and go faster. "Tomorrow" may be a bit of an exaggeration - it's not quite ready yet and the upgrade will take more than a day. But it's not impossible, we will likely see it start to happen in 2016.

sciurus 11y ago

Not many... yet.

noir_lord 11y ago
No but I (and I suspect lots of former .net devs) am watching closely. I'd really like to have true first class C# support on Linux. Never really gotten on with Java so a lot of our backend stuff is in Python and PHP.

traskjd 11y ago

We (https://raygun.com https://raygun.com) use a lot of .NET on the server side. We also use golang, node and a few other things, but a lot of .NET, specifically with C#. We're very excited about being able to run on Linux. There's plenty of our back end worker processes that are in C# and being able to move them to Linux will be a big win for us (manageability, cost, etc). I'm not sure what you consider a significant user base, but we do have 40k+ devs on our platform, and we process billions of interactions and software exceptions every month from many of the top 100 web sites and apps globally.

JBReefer 11y ago
After looking at your site, you guys should definitely open a New York office.
- traskjd 11y ago
  Thanks :-) I've just relocated to Seattle to open a second west coast office. East coast or Dublin is next!

throwaway13337 11y ago

I've been writing an multiplayer game server for linux in mono using unity. People complain about a lack of performance of headless unity servers but that hasn't been my experience. It seems very reasonable.

swalsh 11y ago

I did .net development for 8 years, left for ruby because frankly I got a 50k raise to do so, but right now I'm using core for my own projects which run on a Linux server in the cloud. I'm hoping as the platform improves that I'll be able to do it full time once again.

SideburnsOfDoom 11y ago

> Honest question, how many .NET developers actually write stuff for Linux on the server side? very few now, but not much of the server-side .Net apps and services that I see is OS-specific. Reading data from a db and emitting json is not tied to Windows. It could move over quite quickly. This code may be may be hosted on IIS, but if I could port it off that tomorrow onto lighter-weight lower-cost Linux EC2 instances tomorrow I would, and it's an easy sell to the non-technical manager: Save money and go faster. "Tomorrow" may be a bit of an exaggeration - it's not quite ready yet and the upgrade will take more than a day. But it's not impossible, we will likely see it start to happen in 2016.