Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?

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  1. playwright-scrape-api

    A dead simple REST API to use Playwright to scrape the text contents from any URL.

    My personal opinion is that C# is the language that most teams want but don't know enough about it or have a bad taste from the .NET Framework days. C# and .NET in its current form is a great language and platform to build on.

        [0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/playwright-scrape-api

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  3. js-ts-csharp

    A repository demonstrating functional techniques with C# 10 and the similarities between JavaScript, TypeScript, and C#.

    [1] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp

  4. core

    .NET news, announcements, release notes, and more! (by dotnet)

    The tooling is not entirely open or freely available.

    If you, for e.g., want to debug you have to use MS tooling.[0] You also can't use VSCodium because only the MS built/distributed version of VSCode contains the necessary proprietary binary blobs necessary to debug C# (which also means you're forced to using the aggressive telemetry and other data collection built into the non-open source distribution of VSCode).

    They've also taken steps to lock down the LSP support for C#, which once again requires that you use a MS sanctioned code editor to write C#. [1]

    I really enjoy writing C# and think dotnet is a great platform to develop for, but the barriers preventing me from building more projects on it is that I don't want to be forced to use VSCode or Visual Studio.

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

  5. vscode-csharp

    Official C# support for Visual Studio Code

    [1] https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/527

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