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No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure. I've met quite a few people, who in my opinion had quite sane and intelligent minds, who wished for MS
by b-man 17y ago
No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure.
I've met quite a few people, who in my opinion had quite sane and intelligent minds, who wished for MS failure, for a lot of well based reasons.
- Groxx 17y agoIt would hurt for a while, but I for one would welcome Microsoft's demise. Linux is much nicer to program for, and wouldn't take too long to convert the majority of programmers over to it, and thus most programs. Plus, it's not like there aren't any other options, several of them quite good. The market would adjust to fill the gap.
- ytinas 17y agoWait, what? I would be just as happy as the next guy to see MS go down in flames, but "Linux is much nicer to program for"? In what way exactly? GUI? Nope, the opposite. [1] The server? Not so much. I mean, if you were actually writing to sockets and things then easy use of epoll, etc. might be an issue but in business you're mostly doing REST or web services or something in which case programming the server on Windows is much easier. The environment provides so much for you here. Scripting? Maybe, but who cares? Right now I really find Visual Studio the best IDE. I would like to see that change (and VS has lots of problems) but it's currently head and shoulders above the rest. [1] Further, the Linux GUI has to be one of the worst cases of optimizing for the nearly nonexistent use case ever. If you look at all users of computers today how many of them need X? A number so small as to be statistically irrelevant.
- blub 17y ago>Linux is much nicer to program for In my experience, this is largely a myth promoted by Linux hackers. > and wouldn't take too long to convert the majority of programmers over to it This on the other hand... is just wishful thinking.