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Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by ripley12 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:34AM (#21595916)
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

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Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by zamalek on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:02PM (#21596300)
> 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.

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Re:Microsoft's “Love” of Linux by ripley12 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:26PM (#21596683)
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...
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