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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 Stu
by 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 agoYup, 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...