the biggest problem are that there are thousands of garbage closed source/commerical packages. basically only a few good oss packages out there. and sadly some

the biggest problem are that there are thousands of garbage closed source/commerical packages. basically only a few good oss packages out there. and sadly some good oss packages moved to commerical licenses (I can understand that) but it's sad that something like epplus started to be a commerical thing. the thing is java has the apache foundation which publishes so much great libraries for java. dotnet misses something like that. I mean dotnet basically has no good pdf library like pdfbox. of course there are thousand commerical vendors but some of them are either bad, some have stupid pricing (itext, lul) or don't have modern features and basically are only money grab. the good thing is, is that microsoft provided tons of libraries upfront and that linking with native code is simple.