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There are many more names for things in C# than what you really need to be aware of as a C# developer. Want to write C# that targets Linux? Download the .NET Core SDK. Simple as. Everything else: .NET Standard, .NET Framework, are just names used by the .NET contributors to keep things straight in their head, but you honestly rarely deal with that stuff if you’re starting fresh with .NET Core.

If you’re trying to write C# in emacs you’re doing it wrong. C# has probably the best tooling in the world if you embrace it.

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C# has a decade and a half of hyper-fast Microsoft-funded idea churn behind it, so I agree that it can be super confusing. It's very hard to distill it down to the "modern" stack when every Google hit gives you piles of results that are painfully out of date.

I love c#, but I've been using it since '05. I don't envy newcomers.

Agreed. I basically live in emacs, but for C#, I'm in VS 2017 community and it works great.

What is it with using C# w/ emacs that is wrong? Compared to say development of Java or python code on emacs? Although it doesn't have all the tooling present from say VS, it is still managable with refactoring, autocompletion and some more functionality working already.

I am the current maintainer of omnisharp-emacs and would love to know out what are the most pressing problems people encounter using C# on emacs via omnisharp - https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-emacs

I've never been one of those guys who gets super into his editor, as I don't see it as being the driving force in productivity or efficiency. VS Code or VS Community are my go-to, because they have all the features that are possible. I'm not being pulled away to find a solution to a solved problem: it's there, and it's solved.

How does time travel debugging work in emacs?

Ah, .NET debugging is not implemented in omnisharp-emacs as debugger service is not provided by the underlying omnisharp-roslyn project (the parent language server project).

So you are expected to download VS Code, use sdb or something else if you want to have step-by-step debugger...

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