.NET is often seen as corporate and boring – What are some interesting/cool/unique projects and people?

(DISCLAIMER: Please don’t view this as overly critical of .NET, I am merely interested in unique projects that might have flown a bit under the radar)So I’ve been on a bit of a journey through the worlds of many interesting languages like Zig and Rust lately, and I found that it makes a huge emotional difference on how those projects present themselves as unique, open, diverse and sometimes a bit “punk” (in the case of Zig), which I really enjoy.I’ve also been using C# as an Indie Unity developer for many years now, and I really like the language. Dipping my toes into non-game .NET development has also been surprisingly enjoyable, and after the open-sourcing of .NET Core and making it cross-platform, imho it is now by far one of the best ecosystems/frameworks for a huge number of use cases.Unfortunately, .NET still has a bit of an image problem, as it’s often being derided as super corporate and bloated.So, my question, trying to find out more about what’s going on with .NET is: What are some of the “cool”, more weird/off-the-beaten path projects that people do with .NET stuff?Visually interesting/artistic thingsMaybe some more niche communitiesInteresting thought leaders that are passionate about C#/.NET and are not Microsoft MVPs/working for MS (nothing wrong with that, it was just a bit weird to see basically everyone I found looking for .NET articles working for Microsoft or being somehow financially involved with MS)TL;DR: Where are the more alternative, unique and non-corporate projects, communities and people in the .NET space? via /r/dotnet https://ift.tt/AQR6xu2