I've seen just as many layoffs at big tech because someone randomly decided X*0.9 was the proper number of employees as I've seen from startup volatility. The equity is better in big tech though.

The older I get, I realise that the most joyful accomplishments are in building something reliable that is also useful to a lot of people.

The tools/stack used to achieve this matters, but only so much.

Hmm, I find certain stacks are much easier to reliably build reliable products with.

Different people just find different tools more enjoyable to use

Yeah, the tech and stack in theory doesn't matter as much as the project, but if you don't like work with the tools you won't be as effective

As SRE who deals with a ton of .Net, many companies are moving to .Net Core on Linux. It's slow process but it's getting there.

> many companies are moving to .Net Core on Linux

Why? Is it to port windows software to Linux?

Is anybody starting software on Linux using .Net?

Because .NET is just a superior platform especially for back-ends.

It has been open-source and platform-agnostic for 8 years already.

> Because .NET is just a superior platform especially for back-ends.

Superior to what?

As an indication. Azure have more Linux machines running .NET than Windows machines.

>Why? Is it to port windows software to Linux?

Most of software was web-based software but ran on Windows Server because it was only platform to support .Net Framework. Once we migrated to .Net Core and could run it on Linux, we did so because .Net on Linux is faster and free.

>Is anybody starting software on Linux using .Net?

I mean, all greenfield for day job stuff is done now in Linux. We have several ASP.Net Services that hosted 100% on Kubernetes.

I also helped out with friend startup which is using React + .Net REST API backend, runs using Docker Compose on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.