Congratulations, you survived Silverlight, WebMatrix, and the era when Micro$oft shipped every framework with a DVD. Now .NET runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and whatever else Tux waddles onto, and it does it without begging for the registry.
.NET 10 ships as one runtime with first-class support for Windows, Linux, and macOS consoles, web apps, cloud services, and libraries. You can develop on a MacBook, deploy to Ubuntu, and still remote into a Windows Server just to reminisce.
C# for overachievers, F# for math goths, VB for the nostalgics who refuse to delete their Access database. They all compile to the same runtime, which means your hot take about "just use Node" can finally rest.
Target net10.0, ship binaries that skate across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Need mobile or web assembly? Mono and Blazor share the same codebase so your XAML dreams don’t turn into Silverlight 2: Electric Boogaloo.
The company that brought you Clippy’s unsolicited life advice now publishes .NET as MIT-licensed open source. Yes, the same Micro$oft. The penguin community audited it, shrugged, and now happily runs ASP.NET Core next to NGINX.
We left the plug-in era behind, but the runtime grew up. Use minimal APIs, gRPC, MAUI, or whatever acronym your manager mispronounces. If someone suggests bringing Silverlight back, hand them a WebAssembly build and kindly escort them to 2025.