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I've been working with Microsoft tech for over 20 years and I absolutely love their style so much more than any other tech company. I'm really glad that they ex
by WayneBro 10y ago
I've been working with Microsoft tech for over 20 years and I absolutely love their style so much more than any other tech company. I'm really glad that they exist and I want to see them succeed. When I try to imagine a world without Microsoft and .NET, I honestly start feeling queasy.
My one big complaint about .NET is that they didn't open source it sooner. Maybe then, Silverlight or something really tight like that would have won out over the shit-fest of JavaScript that we've had to deal with for the past decade. JavaScript is finally catching up though and at least Visual Studio is one of the best editors you can use for that too. (Really, with the right extensions installed, I think it is the best.)
I have a lot of complaints about Microsoft too, but I always complain about things I love. Take my wife, for instance... :)
- BigChiefSmokem 10y agoI have to ask, which extensions do you use for your JavaScript development?
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- WayneBro 10y agoWeb Essentials, EditorConfig, Fix File Encoding and Line Endings Unifier. Also, Node.js tools and Tools for Apache Cordova if you work with those. The reason I think it's the best - I haven't seen better HTML/JS/CSS auto-complete in another IDE. It's also got one of the best Android emulators for working with Cordova/Ionic. WebStorm comes close, but I don't like that I had to setup each new JS library to get auto-complete for it. VSCode comes close, but doesn't support code folding on // #region comments and it can't deal with large files as well as the full VS.
- pjmlp 10y agoMy first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 3.3. Borland had better language tooling, but they lost their way, and Microsoft got Anders in the process as well, so in a way I consider that Turbo Pascal spirit lives in .NET, to a certain extent. :)