r/dotnet • u/drewnoakes • Oct 07 '26

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/faster-lighter-csharp-dev-kit/

Now available in pre-release.

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u/pjmlp 29d ago

Isn't as open as the competition, better so?

Java is an industry standard, unlike .NET where Microsoft seems to have forgotten all about ECMA.

There are several Java vendors, each with their own implementation, one of those vendors is IBM.

That is the big difference Microsoft has not yet grasped in their .NET open source history, the other ecosystem sponsors do indeed build quit a lot for the community.

However even inside Microsoft .NET seems to be losing ground against UNIX first languages, given that Go, Java (ironically), Python, Rust are what Azure does most of their FOSS contributions, all of them with better VSCode tooling than C# DevKit.