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Pros
Pro The ideal coding scratch pad
Pro Dark theme
Pro Portable
Can be deployed portable all files are optional apart from LINQPad.exe and LINQPad.exe.config.
Pro Works with Mono
Makes it possible to deploy services to Linux.
Pro Small
Only ~200 Kb.
Pro Service Recovery options
Including restart, reboot, or run program.
Pro No need to use InstallUtil
Cons
Con PostgreSQL driver
PostgreSQL support is not included, but a driver can downloaded from GitHub.
Con Windows only
But LINQ Pad 6 will support .Net Core 3.0.
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