Comment by jiggawatts

It's like Java in that it tends towards the "build once, run anywhere" style.

Also, Windows has a consistent user-mode API surface (unlike Linux), so a .NET app that runs on a desktop will run on server almost always.

The same cannot be said for someone developing on a "UNIX-like" system such a MacOS and then trying to run it on Ubuntu... or RedHat. Alpine? Shit...