> Is the anti windows/.NET bias really that common? I think it's less common now than it used to be but back in their heyday Java devs looked down hard on .NET

> Is the anti windows/.NET bias really that common? I think it's less common now than it used to be but back in their heyday Java devs looked down hard on .NET devs. I think it's because MS visual IDEs, going all the way back to vb6, made a lot of people think they were professional developers just because they could create a basic crud program with a functional GUI very easily. This ended up promoting a huge amount of unusually bad code/coders to production environments and with that the bad rap .NET devs get to this day. The perception is that developers outside of the MS ecosystem usually have to be a little bit more erudite in the way they went about learning their programming language of choice.