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I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but the ASP.NET MVC/IDE is a better ecosystem than Rails now. No more missing bundle x, install devkit x,....just inst

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but the ASP.NET MVC/IDE is a better ecosystem than Rails now. No more missing bundle x, install devkit x,....just install visual studio 15 and get to work.

brianwawok 10y ago
As long as you agree with the choices Microsoft makes. If you have a different opinion? Too bad.
- Touche 10y ago
  Same with RoR, no?
  - gnuvince 10y ago
    Relevant username.
- deleted 10y ago
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- atonse 10y ago
  Eh... this stopped being true quite a while back. .NET has quite a vibrant open source ecosystem now, and it's only growing.
brightball 10y ago
The problem is that it basically locks you out of the ecosystem of Linux/Unix and that is significantly larger and more important than the ecosystem of Rails.
- aswanson 10y ago
  Ok. Imagine me a developer just trying to put up an MVP to see if the idea gets traction. Pitch me on why I should rely on a toolchain that has multiple versions, bundles, and a plethora of (possibly) compatible packages vs one ide with autocompletion and a built in package manager that automatically picks the jquery, json, whateverelse-supporting-javascript library I need etc with a single install?
  - brightball 10y ago
    Are you asking me to get you to pick against .NET in favor of Rails/Django/Phoenix/Play/Grails/Laravel/etc?
    - aswanson 10y ago
      No, asking which has less external dependencies to get up and going fast.