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Almost 500 different talks and not a single one which involves .NET or C#.
by dustedcodes 3y ago
Almost 500 different talks and not a single one which involves .NET or C#.
- m00dy 3y agoit has been not an easy thing to find .net developer since the last ice age.
- pjmlp 3y agoHi!
- wiz21c 3y agoIf you look in the sky, you'll see a bright spot. That's a meteorite. No matter what you do, you'll be extinct pretty soon :-)
- pjmlp 3y agoThankfully the meteorite will end all programming language wars.
- rvdginste 3y agoBah… I doubt that, but might depend on location. Some people should really try to take an objective look at C# and .net and decide about its merit, separately from the company that developed it. I know the latter also plays a role in the decision to invest in technology, but most of modern .net is open source with MIT license.
- cyberpunk 3y agoThe name of the conference may give you a subtle clue as to why that is...
- pjmlp 3y ago.NET has been FOSS for quite some time now. If anything, the .NET community should show up more on this kind of conferences.
- pjmlp 3y agoYeah, not showing up on conferences like this keeps the .NET stigma.
- ghaff 3y agoWhat stigma? There are a great many companies and developers in the .NET orbit. I agree there is still a certain bifurcation between the Microsoft and traditional FOSS worlds in terms of conferences etc. But I'm not sure either needs to convert the other.
- pjmlp 3y agoThe stigma that many UNIX circles still think .NET is Windows only, and will describe you .NET Framework as the current .NET. Quite common in many circles that haven't kept up with .NET, nor are the kind of people to waste their lives in places like HN, Reddit, or spend evenings and weekends coding the next great app in Github. Many of these people do hold management positions, and will favour non-M$ technologies for their company. Yes I wrote M$ on purpose to stress the company culture.
- jen20 3y agoAs I understand it (having been for many years) FOSDEM is self-organizing, so if there is to be a dev room, someone from the relevant community needs to step up and do the work to organise one. It's not true that FOSDEM as a whole ignores .NET though, one year they even had Scott Hanselman doing his thing there.
- dtheodor 3y agoLooks like .NET was represented in FOSDEM once, in 2019. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-and-typescript-at-fosdem-2019/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-and-typescript-at-...
- neonsunset 3y agoIt's popular among people who enjoy worse tooling and performance to put .NET in that weird box where "things I hate or don't understand about programming" belong as a scapegoat. It's a stack they keep asking for and keep missing right under their nose. So the way FOSDEM presentations look like is not surprising. Sure, why do that when we can instead talk about Gleam which is a very good language if you really like how bitcoin mining was friendly to our ecology.