Open Source .NET three years later

Re:Open Source .NET three years later by Spearchucker on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:24AM (#16000106)

The most compelling reason I have for choosing CLR and C# over virtually anything else (and ESPECIALLY Clojure and Scala) is availability (and consequently cost) of skilled resources. Availability both today, and 5 or 10 years from today, depending on the project or program.

In my world (Fortune 500) boutique tech carries inherent risk.

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Re:Open Source .NET three years later by nine_k on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:41AM (#16000177)

This sounds as if skilled Java developers are harder to find that C# developers. Is this indeed so?

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Re:Open Source .NET three years later by scarface74 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @02:09PM (#16000814)

For me, Oracle is not as good of a stewart of Java as Microsoft is of .Net.

I wouldn't waste my time converting from a Java infrastructure to a .Net infrastructure and if I were a Linux shop, I probably would stick with Java for awhile, but if I'm already using Windows servers or have my choice today of using Windows only for the backend, I would definitely chose it because of the number of devs and network people available.

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Re:Open Source .NET three years later by Spearchucker on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:03AM (#16008622)

I know why you said Java. But I pretty expressly didn't, because BigCorp won't know or care why you said Java. Technical smugness doesn't change the fact that Scala and Clojure are exotic, and that exotic carries risk.

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