Sdk Alternatives

sdk reviews and mentions

• Just Fucking Use Go
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2026

  You can make it statically linked using musl. (This is underdocumented because Microsoft thinks it's usually a bad idea: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/37643#issuecomment-1873...)

• 9 Things That Silently Kill Your .NET Build Time (and How to Fix Each One)
  4 projects | dev.to | 6 Apr 2026

  The worst offender is dotnet/msbuild Issue #8984, where glob expansion inside MSBuild targets was missing a critical exclude optimization — causing an internal project to spend over 10 minutes in a single task because MSBuild recursed into bin/ and obj/ directories before subtracting them. And dotnet/sdk Issue #49415 revealed that on a repo with 100K+ source files, 2.25 minutes of a build was pure globbing, with projects evaluated five separate times.

• I Fixed Windows Native Development
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2026

  >It starts by not looking into Windows through UNIX developer glasses.

  People don't need any UNIX biases to just want multiple versions of MSVS to work the way Microsoft advertises. For example, with every new version of Visual Studio, Microsoft always says you can install it side-by-side with an older version.

  But every time, the new version of VS has a bug in the install somewhere that changes something that breaks old projects. It doesn't break for everybody or all projects but it's always a recurring bug report with new versions. VS2019 broke something in existing VS2017 installs. VS2022 broke something in VS2019. etc.

  The "side-by-side-installs-is-supposed-to-work-but-sometimes-doesn't" tradition continues with the latest VS2026 breaking something in VS2022. E.g. https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/51796

  I once installed VS2019 side-by-side with VS2017 and when I use VS2017 to re-open a VS2017 WinForms project, it had red squiggly lines in the editor when viewing cs files and the build failed. I now just install different versions of MSVS in totally separate virtual machines to avoid problems. I predict that a future version VS2030 will have install bugs that breaks VS2026.

  In contrast, gcc/clang can have more isolation without each version interfering with each other.

  I'm not arguing this thread's msvcup.exe tool is necessary but I understand the motivations.

• The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | GitHub
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2026

  Python has an elected steering council and core team. The governance process explicitly tries to avoid conflict of interest by disallowing more than two steering council members working for the same employer. See PEP 13 [1].

  By contrast, .NET is controlled by Microsoft (with veto over board decisions [2] and code changes [3]), integrates Microsoft's telemetry to send your data to Microsoft by default [4] and deliberately hobbles features to benefit Microsoft [5].

  [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/

  [2] https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/policies/.net-foundation-...

  [3] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

  [4] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145

  [5] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

• .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution
  24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2025

  https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/48174

• Dotnet Run App.cs
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2025

  I opened an issue since I couldn't find docs that indicate what they were working on to improve the start time, and they replied:

  https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/49197

• Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2024

  It's not about being "cool"

  It's about the motives

  "it's open source"

  "it now works on linux"

  it all doesn't matter if they'll go after your ass if you dare build tooling with their debugger (jetbrains)

  of when they want to remove a feature overnight to make it exclusive to visual studio windows

  https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

  it's this kind of things that makes it hard to recommend to people, and Microsoft can't be trusted

• Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2024

  I hate to defend telemetry of all things but in this particular case the criticism is unfounded and lacks context:

  https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

  https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

  In any case, Debian would use https://github.com/dotnet/source-build and dotnet/dotnet, and could easily include the argument or a patch for this. It’s unlikely to be an issue. My bet it was not in Debian because there was no one to take initiative or there was but that person has faced a backlash by people in Debian who are similar to vocal minority here that posts FUD because of their little personal crusade.

• Go 1.23 Released
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2024

  FWIW telemetry can be easily opted-out, which the SDK explicitly tells you about, and there is a page that has full list of the kind of data that is collected (usage metrics and tooling crash stack traces). You can also review the metrics yourself.

  About: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

  Collected statistics: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/telemetry

  Source code: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem...

  In either case, many CIs simply have 'DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=' and call it a day.

• Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2024

  They used to gather all command line arguments until they later decided that (oops!) it's "not acceptable per our privacy policies"[0] and they really shouldn't have been doing that. They have also had issues with anonymization not being implemented properly, the opt-out mechanism not working in some edge cases, forgetting to even tell users about the need to opt out, and who knows what else.

  Also, monetary value is not the only reason you might want to keep information private.

  [0] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145#issuecomment-22010...

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