I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that the .NET ecosystem is super confusing, coming as a developer outside of that ecosystem (mostly web). I'm a JS, Python a

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that the .NET ecosystem is super confusing, coming as a developer outside of that ecosystem (mostly web). I'm a JS, Python and PHP developer who sees a majority of jobs in my area as .NET centric. To this end, I'm interested in familiarizing myself with .NET [1] but I'm totally at a loss wrt/ where my entry point to the ecosystem should be. [1] Insofar as starting a new small project or re-implementing an old side project in .NET as a learning process.