An just 30-something Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.
I think mono may still exist somewhat, but .NET Core took it as a foundation and built on top of it in the best way possible. I do hobby dev with .NET on Linux but sadly still beholden by Windows for work for the time being.
I’m curious, how do you go about using C# without .NET?
What do you have to pay Microsoft for when using .NET?
Everything from .NET Core onwards has been a blast to work with in my opinion. And it got even better when .NET 8 came out and I’ve genuinely been excited for every major release since.
It’s just a framework for some code (usually that written in C#) to run on. It’s not a windows only thing either. Just that on Linux if it’s required it’ll just get installed via the package manager, so you won’t see the usual GUI installer that is often packaged with some games (even though you might already have it installed).
What’s wrong with .NET?
I’m pretty sure there’s open source schematics for making NES’s and GameBoy’s, no emulation or FPGAs, just using off the shelf chips.
There’s a distinction between gamer and capital G Gamer
Has happened to me with Persona 3, 4 and 5. It’s not that i get bored, but burned out. In the moment I don’t realise I’m near the end so that when I eventually get back to the game almost a year later, I realise I was literally only like 2 or 3 sessions away from finishing it.
In a sense you’re correct but in reality it’s slightly different because Valve has competition with other digital storefronts as well as the rare physical PC release. Even though Sony are also the ones manufacturing PlayStation discs, they were sold by third parties, and even had the used market for their digital storefront to compete with, keeping prices and sales comparatively in check. If you can only get PlayStation games from a single place, price fixing is going to be easy because customers have nowhere else to go.
It’s more that it’s a two birds one stone kind of situation. 4k bluray players still fell expensive considering all they do is play blurays
Oh no, I’ve just realised that this might mean the end of bluray too because most people use PlayStation’s for watching blu rays. I know I bought a PS5 earlier than I needed to specifically for 4k blurays
Yep, it’s arguably the best thing they’ve done and still currently do I’m actually surprised the core .NET team haven’t been corrupted yet. I always find it funny that all of the bigger guys that show off the new features and improvements in their preview showcases never use windows.
Sadly the Visual Studio and VS Code team seem to have been corrupted though because 95% of all new features for those always seem to be centered around AI. I use Rider personally now, and Im looking forward to eventually moving over to that for work at some point too.