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Why enterprises use .NET and C# technologies?
(lemmy.one)
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Meanwhile in Ubuntu-land, a Python2 script probably just straight up doesn't work at all.
"At least the .NET code continues to run today". And you can setup a 20-year-old developer VM running VS2008 in practice and code "the old way" to continue to maintain the old code (that still runs on today's machines). Meanwhile, you're FORCED to migrate the Python2 stuff in Ubuntu-land due to a litany of incompatible changes to systemd, X.org, Python2 vs 3 issues and more.
Not just Python2, but also Bash-scripts. (Weird changes to netcat, or ipconfig, or other tools that utterly bork old scripts).
Microsoft isn't as good at backwards compatibility as it used to be. But they're still leagues ahead of the OSS community on this.