Tim Corey on YouTube has excellent beginner C# material. I would start there.

The OP ruled out zig and rust already

They are for sure talking about the ARM servers from Oracle. You get 24gb of memory and 4 cpu cores that you can carve into virtual machines.

Issue is that the free stock is very limited, and there have been some claims of people having their free service resources reclaimed by Oracle.

Still, if you can get one, it is probably the best you can get for free.

https://isevenapi.xyz/

$10-20 is what that VPS costs at a cloud provider. You could also dockerize and use a container service like GCP Cloud Run combined with cloud storage within that budget.

I’m not a big node guy, but I also kind of doubt nodejs would fail to handle 10RPS on 2gb of memory. I guess it all depends on what the requests are doing.

Avalonia and Uno Platform if you are working with C#

MySQL (and by extension, MariaDB) has an even better option:

mysql --i-am-a-dummy

Yes.

If I just had one more synthesizer…

Few thoughts:

1. What is being made? Can’t really care about it without having some idea
2. What makes this company’s version of it worth our interest?
3. How is it better than the FOSS solutions that in this day and age almost definitely already exist
4. Why are we to put our faith in this group for pay once software when their two major products are SaaS?

Nothing like castrating half of the family tree because of that one time your brother tried to break up your empire!

I guess I need to refactor for readability. What you just explained is the entire point of the comment I posted. Refactoring is part of the job. Don’t give your manager a choice on whether or not it needs done.

C# is great. VS is fine, but being bolted to Windows is no go for me. Rider all the way.

Who is in the wrong? Your manager, for not giving you time to refactor? Or you for giving him the option?

True, but he mentions .NET development is Windows first, and even mentions that you have “some IDE’s that work with it, like Rider”. He kind of said it without mentioning the specific IDE.

Rider is the real MVP anyways.

even shamed one user in my team to switch from Windows to Mac …

It’s so strange that Windows users don’t see how welcoming our communities are.

That’s distro choice, no? Debian minimal would also be good for the same purpose, or any other minimal distro, really.

Tiny correction: Fedora uses DNF now, not yum (possibly RHEL too, but I have no experience there)

It’s selling itself as more than an IDE. The idea is to have templates for common languages/frameworks. Ideally, this would mean not having to learn how to init a project in a given framework, not having to learn the build tools, not having to learn deployment, ci/cd, etc. Just open this new webapp, pick a framework, develop, and click a “launch” button to have it spin up in GCP.

I imagine they mean launching in more of a release sense (IE: Announcing the launch of new app XYZ). I sure hope so, anyways.