Can some of you tell me about your experience with developing C# on linux?
I still have an O'Reilly book laying around and was wondering, if its worth learning it as my next language.

I personally really like it, and have had a pretty good experience with it

After the release of dotnet core I stopped using Windows for dotnet XD

I've gone all Linux since what was holding me back was the dotnet framework.

I like its performance, good enough for my needs. Though on their github if you check their issues its not yet mature enough for large scale services. Though version 3 seems promissing

It's really good as long as you don't need WPF. Net Core 3 offers comability but if you use any of external libraries for visual effects they may be incompatible.
But it's great. Especially using Rider.

@Agred WPF support is windows only or they changed that? I recall reading that it's a windows only feature, hope I'm wrong tho

@gitpush It's available, more or less, in early access NET Core 3. Tbh, I haven't tried it out yet since my only WPF app used incompatible dependencies, but there are even tutorials on how to port an app to Linux.

@Agred But doesn't WPF require DirectX which prevented them from porting it in the first place?

I don't want to install preview release, don't really want to mess up my environment with multiple versions.

@gitpush I may be completely wrong and I don't want to lie to you. I'll try to build something very basic and will update you in several minutes.

@Agred Sorry I bothered you with this, but from their github: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/...

I think the ones we see online are 3rd party port of wpf

@gitpush It may be. I wanted to build anything quickly to check it out, but I'm afraid it's gonna take a while... My net is kind dead.

@FrodoSwaggins I'm curios about downsides of .net.

I'm more into mobile development, and used .net only for my own projects not in a position to list downside of it. And for sure not comparing to C/C++ there is no need to even think who might be the winner here.

@Agred I know the feeling, have the same speed at night, during the day it goes up to 210KB/s lol

Avalonia for cross platform desktop apps and net core for cross platform web services\apps. Plus visual studio code.

Can't complain with C# on Linux 😏

Short answer: YES

@FrodoSwaggins You reminded me, "I also think c# has way too many features that are only in there because it was a cool trick to be able to do and was some compiler engineers pet project" is the only reason why I am a bit disappointed, true saves time writing but limits the way we think.

I remember few years ago setting up Unity on Linux with vscode Intellisense was a bitch.
Nowadays? Holy crap, seems like it's easier and quicker on Linux than Windows. Things have changed.

@gitpush Okay, so I checked and yes - I was entirely wrong. You can't build WPF/WinForm apps on Linux.

I think I got confused because Rider gave me an option to create Desktop Application on Linux even though I can't build them. Sorry!

@Agred No worries man I really appreciate the fact you checked :D

@Agred @gitpush could've told you in advance ^^

WPF uses DirectX and WinForms use the Win32 API/GDI+, both of which are Windows-only