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I don't understand all the hate towards .Net. The included libraries are amazing.. about 80% of what you will ever need is provided by the framework. It basically provides you with a massive selection of tools, ready to go. The rest you can either build yourself or pull in a (precompiled) nuget package.

It is my main gripe with JavaScript (and with typescript): a lack of a standard library that everyone uses and trusts. Something that should be predictable and boring, is absolute chaos in the js world. I think it's half the reason things like jQuery, momentjs, lodoash and others exist, because people got frustrated with the lack of built-in functionality. npm has just made everything worse. Can't we have a .Net type framework for javascript? Minus the CLR and compilers of coarse, just the framework bits. Or if we need some kind of CLR type layer, why not build it with webassembly? Then all flavours of javascript can call into that? There has to be a clean way forward.

> It is my main gripe with JavaScript (and with typescript): a lack of a standard library that everyone uses and trusts. Something that should be predictable and boring, is absolute chaos in the js world

This is something that Deno is attempting to build with its stdlib: https://deno.land/std

While the stdlib is not shipped with Deno (it is downloaded like any other third party dep), the code there is reviewed and audited by the core team.

I don't understand all the hate towards .Net.

Because it's the same over-abstracted over-engineered life-sucking ecosystem as the Java world.

I think that's more a property of the C# code that's out there rather than a property of .NET or C# themselves. A lot of (most?) C# and Java code in the world is over-abstracted over-engineered and life-sucking just by virtue of them being popular corporate languages and most code being boring. Using C# with Unity, for instance, is a pretty good experience though.

That really depends on the developers involved. Some people like building over complicated complex nonsense to justify their existence, while others build very lean/shallow code and go on with their lives.

The code I write for production in the "realworld" is maybe 1/4 as complex/convoluted as the academic stuff we did in university. And lines of code -wise, maybe 1/10.

You don't need to build an excavator to add some dirt into potted plants, but I can bet there will always be people who build a space-grade shovels with redundant enterprise level handles that guarantees maximum soil filling rates, even when under water... but not everyone is like that. C#/.Net Core definitely doesn't throw you down that path.

I personally don't like AspNet Core, as plenty of the old mistakes are being repeated, some of the same patterns exists, which I'd argue Microsoft had the opportunity to move away from, but didn't. But .net core itself is pretty great (and lean, no overabstraction in the core system).

Yep, was exploring ASPNet Core for a new project and was like nope ;)

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