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What do you find most frustrating about .NET? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sisyphean to c/dotnet
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The original thread is on the devil’s website and I don’t want to direct traffic to it, so here’s a link to the tweet instead:

https://twitter.com/davidfowl/status/1671351948640129024?s=46&t=OEG0fcSTxko2ppiL47BW1Q

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[–] attn_dfct_dev 3 points 1 year ago

I am a .NET dev and love the language, ecosystem, tooling and recently their open source initiatives. Few things that frustrate me. Here are my whines:

  • Naming of framework — asp.net core / asp.net could have been one word say, Katana.
  • Language features — I am still comfortable with C#6 or may be a few things from C#7. I know I do not have to use all new stuff, but I feel left out. Too much inertia as of now to get over the hump.
  • I wanted to break into GUI stuff for long time, but there is no clear path. Avalonia is good and I hope the documentation becomes good as explained by Mike in a recent podcast.
  • The company I work for has an initiative of OSP Open Source Practice. I feel bad that .NET/C# is not included in this ever. OSP only means Java, Python and probably Go. It is a nitpick, but MS has done so much to make .NET open source, yet even technology oriented companies think of MS development platform as a closed system.