That said, in an enterprise setting, for all of Microsoft's other faults, C# is damn near bullet proof. Some enterprises, like mine, can't rely on community supported tooling for life-critical systems. If something breaks, we're near instantaneously on the phone to a dedicated support rep to fix the problem.

I learned C# and Java years ago during my IT degree but had long since forgotten them. The enterprise I work in uses C# a fair bit.

Only started to pick up C# again in the past few months, and holy heck, I forgot how pleasurable it is to work in C# again.

If the third-party components used in some software I help maintain supported JetBrains Rider, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

Visual Studio (not Code...) is okay, though I'm not tripping over myself to use it. PyCharm and IntelliJ have spoiled me.

From a demand standpoint everyone uses the Microsoft variant because it's easy to use and hire for. There's a ton of documentation. Lots of issues are at the seems of different libraries, applications or frameworks you use. And in the Microsoft world it's frequently all the same. Everyone uses the same identity library, the same webserver, the same cloud, the same database, the same orm.

If you're into learning technology it's not for you. But if you're into learning about domains and business instead of tech or like having free time it's a great stack. Doesn't work well for b2c because of the cost, but works really well for b2b.

C# and dotnet are open source so what on Earth are you even talking about?

>squash my curiosity

Maybe increase your curiosity and try something new, change the 15 year trend and use an IDE. JetBrains Rider is great and cross platform.

"tolerance in that community for people who have those values"

More likely is they don't worry about this nonsense and just get work done, making a great language, platform and tools used extensively and productively in many companies. Why should they "think about you at all" as the meme goes?

Talk of culture, values, community, tolerance, "your characteristics". This all reeks of injecting extraneous personal feelings where they don't need to be. How about you just try the language, if you actually care to do so, and worry about the rest later?

Funny enough, it's the efforts of Omnisharp and the VSCode team that has so significantly improved the experience of using various other languages in open source editors due to the creation of LSP.