Refs: https://vms2.terasp.net/ https://github.com/elestio/cloudgate
There are a lot of little conveniences that are missing. There is no destructuring, no first-class functions (i.e. can’t declare functions outside of a class), no easy way to loop over properties of a class and access their values, no spread/rest operators and other things like that.
I think the C# 9 might address some of these shortcomings.
Some things that I liked about my .Net core project: I didn’t have to write swagger documents at all. They just got auto generated from my API classes. Dapper is better than any micro-ORM that we have in JS. I didn’t have to write a bunch of tests to make sure I was using correct types. It works great on Linux!
Everything’s got its trade-offs. I started my career with Microsoft Access, VB 4/5/6 and complained about moving to .Net. Then I did like 12 years of C# and couldn’t imagine loving JS until I started doing that full-time, since like 2013 or so.... I was glad to polish off my C# skills and to learn .Net core though, just in case I want to switch back some day.