Comment by jedberg

1 month ago

Interesting, I don't think we've ever gotten a request for .net support. Our two most popular asks after PY and TS are Golang and Java, which basically tracks with the StackOverflow language survey:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

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exceptione  1 month ago

As I was disappointed does not mean you did make the wrong choice.

.net core is a silent workhorse in midlevel to larger companies. Java is strong in the large enterprise (banking, gov, multinationals) scene.

Your choice might be rational though:

  1. Both TS and PY have a relative large following of beginners. I have a hunch that those people are less likely to explore other ecosystems, and for them a tool like you have might be really appealing because it allows them to stay there.


  2. The bar to be competitive in .net and Java is on a higher level.

OTOH: Popularity on StackOverflow might be misleading.

  1. Python is a popular choice for "glueing" tasks, think data mangling and llm. Those people would be less inclined to build applications, that is not their job.


  2. TS is a heroic effort to fix JS, and that being the only choice for frontend means that this demographic is big. Some might want to bring this frontend fix to the server side to build server applications, but I don´t know how big that demographic is. It might grow due to the push for SSR.

  3. Both are beginner languages, resulting in more StackOverflow engagement