That fear of the company letting you go for anything at any time…with a union they just can’t do that

They also can’t do that in countries with workers rights. This should be a standard right, not something that requires the workers to unionize.

Edit: I understand that unions make it easier to enforce.

That’s a very old way of thinking of things. C# has been cross platform for a long time.

Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs

Not really. Most C# apps use .NET (since the framework and standard library is quite feature-rich) rather than direct Win32 calls, and .NET is cross-platform. A lot of web services are written in C# and deployed to Linux servers.

basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore

You can compile a C# app to a single executable that doesn’t require the framework to be installed.

Are you running Jellyfin, the *arr suite, slskd, or Technitium DNS? They’re all written in C#.

This makes sense! You get the same advantage if the app uses Go or C# though, and both of those can compile to a single statically-linked executable too.

Looks like a good project, but I genuinely don’t quite get why Rust projects feel the need to advertise “written in Rust” as a feature. Do you find that a lot of users care which programming language your app is written in? Does it help with finding contributors?

I don’t know which programming language most of my self-hosted apps use, and I don’t mind since they all work well and do their job.