.NET is demonstrably a great environment (judging by effectiveness) and licensing is hardly an issue since .NET core. So it must be partly cultural. First of al

.NET is demonstrably a great environment (judging by effectiveness) and licensing is hardly an issue since .NET core. So it must be partly cultural. First of all, unless you have macbooks, you're not really a startup. and if you're a new developer who needs to pad out the CV, naturally you will be attracted to the most buzzwordy tech stack available - if it isn't dockerised scala->graphql->redis->whatever so you can code while you code, nobody's gonna hire you afterwards man. Also that awkward, sad reaction when you reveal to other burgeoning developers that you work in .NET