I've been seeing more and more hype for .NET Core lately, and I'm a little bit confused as to why there is such a hype.

Are hundreds of Mac user developers suddenly going to start wanting to learn C# and .NET Core? I feel like most of the hype is from the existing Windows developer community, mostly people who are ALREADY using C#.

I get it. It is cross-platform. C# is technically better than Java in some respects. Microsoft has good developer tools. Yes, all true.

But at the end of the day, fundamentally speaking, Java is still used by MORE companies, and not only that, more TOP Tech Companies. This is fact. There's no changing this fact.

I would imagine if any person on this sub had a choice, they would not choose C# and the type of old-school enterprise-y company that is reminiscent of the type of company associated with using C#, regardless of .NET Core or not.

I'm just surprised to see some developers wanting to use .NET Core to replace JavaScript through Blazor or to launch a new startup. That's fine and all, but let's be completely honest. Most of the true startups are made using Node/Express, Ruby on Rails, maybe Django/Flask. No one is going to suddenly say let's use C# for any willy nilly startup as their first choice unless they obviously have some kind of specific bias over using that technology before.

What are everyone's thoughts about this?