Probably because the crowd that mostly was on. Net is the one in enterprises and they're not going to migrate legacy apps anytime soon. Seriously, other than stack overflow and maybe Ms owned properties, does anyone remember any other large scale site that was on. Net?

IMO, that means that. Net was never targeting the early adopter market. Ergo, their new platform, which is just different enough, isn't probably having many adopters. Secondly, having to wait for libraries to catch up is probably a real reason initially (till.net standard 2.0?) But that just meant when slower adoption.

Add to this, to maintain cross platform tooling, they're now have cli first tooling and flux around fileformats. That imo, made a lot of the traditional .net shops uncomfortable.

I've jumped b/w .net and Java and very comfy with Linux. Last few years have been. Net and .net core in prod. after 2.0+, it's been absolutely wonderful. Great language ergonomics and I can finally ditch vs for vs code. 3.0 is only going to make it better

But then, I'm probably far from the representative .net dev here.