Comment by Ygg2
4 days ago
> .NET was the most sane programming ecosystem that I worked in.
Having written libraries in .Net I fully disagree with that notion.
First insanity is figuring out what in the fuck you need to support. .Net framework or .Net standard or .Net Core or Mono (or .Net Duplo or .Net dot nes :P).
Second is the Source generators. I swear using t4 templates is the saner option. I've had cached artifacts appearing out of the fucking nowhere like unkillable zombies despite closing the Rider, clearing its cache, and killing build server.
Third is the availability of packages. In Rust and Java there are like several libs for anything (even if C bindings).
> First insanity is figuring out what in the fuck you need to support.
Since I no longer support .NET Framework, it's just .NET now.
.NET was two platforms for a while and they did a lot of weird stuff to make that work (.NET standard) but it's been one platform for many versions now so that specific difficulty can mostly be ignored.
Easy to say, but it poiets to ecosystem fracture. But I've been getting requests to support really weird and outlandish versions. Stuff like Mono and .Net 4.56
Microsoft managed a smoother transition than Python 2.x to 3.x. This kind of thing is very difficult. I don't see any reason to support Mono or .NET 4.56 anymore.
Most C# libraries I use are outdated, crappy and do just a little less than what I need. Also, most Rust libraries I try to use are outdated, crappy and do just a little less than what I need. Maybe what I need is niche but my experience is pretty similar in that regard.