I think .NET has gotten, or rather failed to shake off, a reputation as slow and Windows-only. It's very powerful, the tooling is free and best-in-class, self

I think .NET has gotten, or rather failed to shake off, a reputation as slow and Windows-only. It's very powerful, the tooling is free and best-in-class, self hosting on a cheap Linux VPS is trivial and the framework itself includes almost any functionality you could wish for with installing random packages.