What are you talking about C# being tied to Visual Studio? This is 2025 not 1995.
I do my hobby .NET development in Zed and my serious work in Rider. .NET is open source and MIT licences. I do most of my development on a ARM MacBook Pro, or using my workstation which runs Fedora.
We deploy our code on kubernetes clusters usually on AWS.
All of the tooling, compiler, libraries etc are open source and cross platform and free. Not a single one of the developers in my team uses Windows or Visual Studio.
You know there are people.. programmers.. who are not C# developers... and likely refuse C# because of various reasons.. right? It can be based on the fact its Microsoft. My comment is based on startups and, from my experience, people like go all in on C# because decisions have been made to go all-in Microsoft.
C# has come a long way in the last 10 years. This much is clear, providing better support outside of the Windows ecosystem. However, many outside of the Windows/Microsoft ways are likely to be using languages like Go.
> What are you talking about C# being tied to Visual Studio? This is 2025 not 1995.
There was no C# in 1995.
(See it's easy attacking a sentence)
I do my hobby .NET development in Zed and my serious work in Rider. .NET is open source and MIT licences. I do most of my development on a ARM MacBook Pro, or using my workstation which runs Fedora.
We deploy our code on kubernetes clusters usually on AWS.
All of the tooling, compiler, libraries etc are open source and cross platform and free. Not a single one of the developers in my team uses Windows or Visual Studio.