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Personally the biggest advantage .NET core has for my situation is that it creates a pool of programming talent and mindshare that I'd now be open to hiring and

Personally the biggest advantage .NET core has for my situation is that it creates a pool of programming talent and mindshare that I'd now be open to hiring and working with on projects that can now be made with open source tools in a sane environment. I don't think it would be my go to choice for projects currently, but its an option I would happily consider and I give Microsoft a lot of credit for moving in this direction. That being said so far the reasons I've had to look at it were modernizing older .NET projects and last I looked there were so many incompatibilities be between .NET core and .NET standard that the projects would have been almost complete re-writes, somewhat of nullifying its advantages against other choices, but that was a while ago.

javcasas 8y ago
For us, hiring .NET core developers is very hard. The pool of programming talent is gigantic, but it's also full of ultra-low quality developers. It has taken us almost half a year to find a decent C# .NET developer, with an average of 2 interviews per week on the best developers we could find. Meanwhile the previous developer had time to construct a behemonth of Java overengineering (Enterprise code they call it) that is taking us several months to tear down. We couldn't fire him because we didn't have a replacement, but in hindsight, firing him soon would have been better. @alexmuro: best of luck finding quality in the pool of programming talent.