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[nwah1]

Yep, it is open source, cross-platform, with a fantastic MVC framework and an elegant language (C#).

Visual Studio is of course proprietary and windows-only, but it isn't necessary to use. Although you'd be a fool not to use it.

[_khhm → nwah1]

ASP.NET Core 1 (formerly ASP.NET 5.0) development works great in Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/, which is FOSS (MIT license) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/ and works on Linux and OS X as well as Windows.

A lot of people don't realize that Visual Studio Code is, in fact, it's own product and not a version of full Visual Studio.

[romanovcode → nwah1]

You should check out Project Rider[0].

[0] https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2016/01/13/project-rider-a...