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I would take the question the other way around. Why would a .NET developer use linux in the first place?
by jlengrand 13y ago
I would take the question the other way around.
Why would a .NET developer use linux in the first place?
- usea 13y agoI'm a .NET developer who uses linux from time to time. Mostly the reasons are licensing costs, linux being easier to develop on in some other languages, and personal growth. I am orders of magnitude more productive using Visual Studio in Windows, but in the grand scheme of things that's a local optimum. I'd like to learn new things, use other tools, etc.
- jlengrand 13y agoCool to know, thanks for the feedback, didn't mean to be rude or call you close minded. :) You highlight exactly what I meant " am orders of magnitude more productive using Visual Studio in Windows". There probably isn't much incentive for you to write in mono on Linux, because you could be so much more productive on another platform. And if you switch to Linux, it's probably so much easier to open a python shell that setting up a MONO environment doesn't make sense in most cases.
- kristianp 13y agoI'm another .net developer, who loves linux. I have had daydreams of porting the software at work to mono, so we can have Mac and Linux versions, but it isn't going to happen. When I use linux, I much prefer to use languages where linux is the "1st class" platform (and not Java or JRE based). Mono is improving all the time, but C# doesn't have the attraction for me outside of work.