Does it make sense to work on a c# project, for a windows server, developing it on linux?

Question

I'm a PHP/JS developer, now I have a proposition of making a project based on C#, which would then work on a Windows server.

I have no experience with either (C# or Windows server) but I was given some time to learn it, if we agree on the details.

The project is about an API (web service, RESTful).

And now I have two questions - I haven't touched Windows for about 10 years, so:

• Am I right that I have to learn C# and the .NET framework? Is the .NET some sort of standard on MS servers?

• Is this reasonable to work on the project using Linux machine as the work environment and then upload it to the Windows test server for testing?

BTW, right now the project is very simple, probably only a few classes. If I'll make it, I can later install Windows on my workspace, but for this very small project, where time allowed for the implementation is about one day (excluding my learning process) I would prefer to avoid it.

Answer 1

1. C# is a programming language, .NET is a framework. There is an old .NET Framework that is windows only and the newer .NET Core (the newest version is called just .NET 5), which is cross-platform.
2. You can develop .NET core apps on linux as well. Note that you won't be able to use Visual Studio (IDE), which is only available for Windows and Mac.