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I guess you've never worked in a .NET shop before? Or the days when everyone just developed on Visual Studio on Windows, before Macbooks for developers was a t

• softwaredoug 6y ago
  Yes I’ve worked in MS shops, even written Win32 code. I learned a monolithic dev ecosystem was what I personally did not want. So that pendulum swung more towards OSS...
  • jmchuster 6y ago
    I think most developers would agree that "open source has won". I feel the aspect of it that you're focusing on here is the ability to choose the best-in-breed tools, and to be able to swap each one out individually as better options arrive. If Microsoft's approach with its open source tooling is to follow that mindset, I'm not concerned. If it isn't, then eventually people will either move on to other tooling or fork it. Now, if we're saying that Microsoft should be spending more of their time on interop and portability but chooses not to prioritize their resources on that, then that just falls into the category of common complaints that people have with all open-source projects and what the contributors choose to spend their valuable developer hours on.