The wider .NET ecosystem is lacking when trying to step out the mainline. I don't bother hunting for unused, partially implemented .NET libraries anymore and just call out to a process or API call when needing to get something done.

It's not ideal, but when there isn't a good option isn't available in .NET it's usually available in Python/npm. Typically I'll use background jobs when calling out of process for added resiliency/replayability and observability.

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cm2187 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure I agree. Also depends of the domain. The python ecosystem is of course a lot richer for anything AI. But try to open, manipulate and export spreadsheets. In python you pretty much need a different library for every excel file format (xls, xlsx, etc) and usually the more file formats a library can handle, the least capable it is (eg pandas). In .net you have libraries like spreadsheetgear that are super powerful, including their own excel calculation engine. I see nothing remotely close in python.

	▲	exyi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that a good library usually exists for some language, which is not necessarily the one you are currently using. IMHO, we don't lack good libraries in XY, we are lacking good interop. Going through REST or stdio is quite painful just to render PDF (or export spreadsheet, ...)

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pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is hardly anything that isn't available in .NET, the main problem is being willing to pay for tooling.

	▲	mythz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm using of a lot of ComfyUI Workflows, Custom Nodes, Image and Audio classifiers relying on PyTorch, supervision, ultralytics, MediaPipe, OpenCV, onnxruntime, pandas, numpy that says otherwise. There are some equivalents, but the ecosystems aren't playing in the same ballpark.

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thiago_fm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This looks like ChatGPT. There are PLENTY of alternatives on the post.

Python and others have similar issues, with them having limitations as well

	▲	mythz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It wouldn't be a quest if there were lots of good options, a few good options is better than lots of unused/unmaintained ones.