Why is working with C# and .NET Core great again?

All jobs I see require knowledge of .NET Core 8. Meanwhile jobs at Microsoft require knowledge and experience with Java.

maybe because microsoft _made_ dotnet, they just have enough experienced dotnet people in house and don't need to hire more?

Honestly starting with .net core 6, it’s insanely good. Best back-end by far.

@AlgoRythm used .NET core 6 and 8. Yeah it might be good but I still feel it pushes you to the Microsoft ecosystem very quickly: it makes integrations easy with Azure, makes you try different Microsoft implementations for auth etc.

In the end, once you want to modify something you find some Microsoft only knowledge hidden behind a paywall or you hope one of the MVPs did a video on it.