> To the uneducated, C# is linked to Visual Studio.. the IDE.. and the Community edition if free as long as you are a student, open-source, and individuals. Professional and Enterprise are paid.
No it's not. What? Visual Studio is a shitty MS product that most decent C# devs already moved away from to JetBrains/vscode.
> Need a database - should it be SQL Server? Should it be Windows Servers? etc.
.NET runs on Linux just fine, there's also zero issues using Postgres or any other popular DB of your choice.
> there are many smaller companies (and startups) that may have concern paying for such tools.
There's literally nothing you would need to pay to work in .NET ecosystem. If a company rules out a language based on thoughts like yours, I genuinely believe they deserve to fail. Literally none of those things is true and it takes a minute or two to find all of that out.
> most decent C# devs already moved away from to JetBrains/vscode.
My comment is NOT talking about 'decent C# devs'
It is a RESPONSE as to why more people are not using C# for startups. For those who are not familiar with C# MAY be put off using it for those reasons... and why another language might be used.
