What Makes .NET Core So Special?
.NET Core and F# are the only reasons why I still develop .NET. I really hope the platform can break out of the Microsoft silo and attract talent from other dev communities, because the biggest problem with .NET Core, despite the whole OSS move, is still that the majority of C# developers let themselves happily trap by the Microsoft marketing machinery. The average .NET developer never even tries different things like AWS or the Google Cloud, TravisCI or AppVeyor, etc. They just swallow anything which so-called MVPs and conference presenters force them down the throat, primarily Azure which is by all measures inferior to the other two and they don&#x27;t even know.<p>Visual Studio is littered with SQL server and Azure tools which doesn&#x27;t even make sense. Either offer equal tools for all major tech or none, but this subconscious constant selling of their own tools sickens me slowly.