Understanding .NET 2015
Recently I got to use some C# on Linux (with Mono framework), and I gotta say it wasn't bad. I didn't do anything with GUI elements, was all back-end server code.<p>C# wouldn't be my top "go to" language, but I would put it above Java. I liked some of the generics handling better, it can be less verbose it seems.<p>Monodevelop is not on par with Visual Studio, but it is solid and worked well for me. I usually don't like IDEs, but for a new language/framework and large projects it was very helpful to have it.<p>Wondering if open sourcing .NET core will breathe a new life into Mono project and maybe it is going to be bigger thing that what we expected -- we'll start seeing more back-end usage of .NET.<p>F# is nice too, and if anyone stayed away because of having to use Windows, maybe now is a time to take a second look.