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Comment by oaiey | Hacker News Reader

Just with the difference, that there is not 2/3 culture split here. Everyone agrees that .NET Core is the future and should be used. The universal cloud adoption (e.g. AWS Lambda), containerization and Linux deployments are so huge selling points for .NET Core.

People are hold back because of deprecated tech and because no one touches a running system without need. And maybe that black matter developers just do not know yet ;).

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For reference, I'm mostly talking about brand-new projects, and purely from my perspective as a former .NET dev that still spends time with the local .NET community.

I've not met a single .NET dev that doesn't want to use .NET Core. Hell, if anything, a lot of them would love the opportunity to use .NET on a Unix system, and to use established tooling not available on Windows. The problem is that the tools they use aren't ported yet.

Umbraco is a key example, as the most popular .NET CMS in use today. It's a great CMS, but we're at least 1-2 years away from a .NET Core implementation, and probably even longer if we're hoping for a first-class Postgres/MySQL backed implementation. Until then, as you've rightly said, there's no need to switch to .NET Core.

I don’t care about being able to develop .Net apps on Linux. Being able to deploy to Linux is a game changer especially in the cloud. Anytime that you add Windows to a cloud environment you get hit with the triple whammy of slow startup times, increased licensing costs and increased resource requirements.

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