And for literal decades the 3rd party library ecosystem around .NET was anemic. Importing 3rd party libraries was an afterthought in the language, typically it

And for literal decades the 3rd party library ecosystem around .NET was anemic. Importing 3rd party libraries was an afterthought in the language, typically it involved downloading a .dll from some server, dropping it in the same folder as your project, and then manually editing some XML. Things are better now, but for all its (many!) positives, .NET is not an example of how to create a good ecosystem. Of course back then Microsoft considered an ecosystem to be 3rd party partners selling libraries, of which quite a few successful companies did.