Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
by lghh on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:13AM
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I'm a Linux person who likes .NET Core. I like C# quite a bit, and I don't think Linux is a 2nd class citizen for .NET Core.
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especially since kestrel is faster on linux than on windows. (well it's slower than iis inProcess, but still)
It is still a 2nd class citizen, IMO – but I think that's improving rapidly. Some examples:
-IDE support from MS is markedly better on Windows (real Visual Studio) and Mac (VS for Mac). VS Code+Omnisharp is still pretty rough around the edges for C#.
-Many of the older .NET class libraries were just not designed with *nix in mind. System.IO still doesn't support symlinks https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/26310
> Many of the older .NET class libraries were just not designed with *nix in mind. System.IO still doesn't support symlinks
Windows supports symlinks, so that problem is not unique to netcore on nix. Many of the newer APIs are designed with explicit support for nix.
Yup, but I think the problem stems from symlinks being relatively uncommon in NTFS compared to nix filesystems - it just wasn't a priority for the original .NET designers who were mostly targeting Windows. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlin...