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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
VS express has always been free as far as I know. And what developers use Windows??? Even the awesome .NET developers I know are using Mono on a Linux installation. The terminal on Windows is a joke compared to bash/ZSH.
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Well people don't usually get Windows for the terminal. And altough I enjoy bashing MS products from time to time I must say I'm happy with the fact that they decided to release Express for free (or better said forced to) and I've used it sucesfully for commercial Windows Only applications.
If I want cross platform compatibility there's always Java.
One major thing I don't like about .NET is that assemblies are easily disassembled back to the original source code. So obfuscation is a must for sensible releases. I was even forced to encrypt some but they're available at runtime anyway.