I’ve worked in a .NET based startup before. While .NET itself is very nice, the ecosystem is not quite there so it’s a lot harder to get started and manage comp

I’ve worked in a .NET based startup before. While .NET itself is very nice, the ecosystem is not quite there so it’s a lot harder to get started and manage compared to other open source stacks. It’s harder to automate and script. A lot of tools you rely on aren’t made to run on Windows. Windows itself is hard to automate. For example, rebooting your EC2 instance might trigger a hour long Windows Update. You can’t really use tools like Chef, because installing .net and sql server might take 2 hrs. It’s better to have golden VMs with everything installed. I don’t know how much the situation has improved with core running on Linux.