It's hard for blanket statements not to raise hackles, I think you highlight a real trend but it feels a little broad of a statement to me (the joys of distilling opinions into text).
The first language I learned was Python and then I got a job in a .NET shop and I've been .NET since, to declare my bias. But I'm not dyed-in-the-wool Microsoft stack, I think Postgres is better than SQL Server for almost every use case (though SQL Server is superior to Oracle or MySQL for most others), that something like Rust is better for embedded or systems programming, that if you need cross-platform UI you're better off using something outside the Microsoft stack and that it makes a lot more sense to host a .NET web app on a Linux server and I have no interest in Azure, or indeed any cloud vendor's properitary tools.
I think there exists a trend, as in Oracle shops or IBM shops, for some large/corporate companies to tie in to a tech stack and consider, for example, Sharepoint or CRM or SAP, to be the solution to everything. I think this has less to do with individual developers and more to do with sales pressure. A lot of developers just code for a job, they have no interest in it outside of it being a tool to work with and since .NET is (in the studies I've seen) within the top 3 techs by number of jobs in most of the Anglosphere it tends to be overrepresented in corporate environments where development is 'just a job'. But there are also many companies using whatever tool is best for the job, within the constraints of what their team knows, or cost, or whatever those might be and to tar every primarily .NET developer with the same brush is going to annoy people.
I still regard .NET and particularly .NET Core to be one of the best environments I've used to build Web Apps in. You get great performance [0], type safety, memory safety, in my view the best IDE available, an excellent quality standard library, access to F# as you mention, etc.
I think stereotyping a ".NET crowd" is unhelpful, as is a stereotype about front-end developers all being boot-camp trained developers with little experience or C++ developers all being cranks who refuse to work with modern technology.
The first language I learned was Python and then I got a job in a .NET shop and I've been .NET since, to declare my bias. But I'm not dyed-in-the-wool Microsoft stack, I think Postgres is better than SQL Server for almost every use case (though SQL Server is superior to Oracle or MySQL for most others), that something like Rust is better for embedded or systems programming, that if you need cross-platform UI you're better off using something outside the Microsoft stack and that it makes a lot more sense to host a .NET web app on a Linux server and I have no interest in Azure, or indeed any cloud vendor's properitary tools.
I think there exists a trend, as in Oracle shops or IBM shops, for some large/corporate companies to tie in to a tech stack and consider, for example, Sharepoint or CRM or SAP, to be the solution to everything. I think this has less to do with individual developers and more to do with sales pressure. A lot of developers just code for a job, they have no interest in it outside of it being a tool to work with and since .NET is (in the studies I've seen) within the top 3 techs by number of jobs in most of the Anglosphere it tends to be overrepresented in corporate environments where development is 'just a job'. But there are also many companies using whatever tool is best for the job, within the constraints of what their team knows, or cost, or whatever those might be and to tar every primarily .NET developer with the same brush is going to annoy people.
I still regard .NET and particularly .NET Core to be one of the best environments I've used to build Web Apps in. You get great performance [0], type safety, memory safety, in my view the best IDE available, an excellent quality standard library, access to F# as you mention, etc.
I think stereotyping a ".NET crowd" is unhelpful, as is a stereotype about front-end developers all being boot-camp trained developers with little experience or C++ developers all being cranks who refuse to work with modern technology.
[0]: https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati...