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I'm a Linux person who likes .NET Core. I like C# quite a bit, and I don't think Linux is a 2nd class citizen for .NET Core.

• merb 7y ago
  especially since kestrel is faster on linux than on windows. (well it's slower than iis inProcess, but still)
• ripley12 7y ago
  It is still a 2nd class citizen, IMO – but I think that's improving rapidly. Some examples: -IDE support from MS is markedly better on Windows (real Visual Studio) and Mac (VS for Mac). VS Code+Omnisharp is still pretty rough around the edges for C#. -Many of the older .NET class libraries were just not designed with *nix in mind. System.IO still doesn't support symlinks https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/26310 https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/26310
  • zamalek 7y ago
    > Many of the older .NET class libraries were just not designed with *nix in mind. System.IO still doesn't support symlinks Windows supports symlinks, so that problem is not unique to netcore on nix. Many of the newer APIs are designed with explicit support for nix.
    • ripley12 7y ago
      Yup, but I think the problem stems from symlinks being relatively uncommon in NTFS compared to nix filesystems - it just wasn't a priority for the original .NET designers who were mostly targeting Windows. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlin...
• garganzol 7y ago
  Sometimes I think that Linux is the 1st class citizen for .NET Core when it comes to a server stack. .NET Core is seriously awesome since version 2.0 on all platforms.