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Reminds me of a CS professor telling me that a COBOL programmer will never go hungry ... and it's still true :-) MS stack will be high quality and used by clie
by AdamN 5y ago
Reminds me of a CS professor telling me that a COBOL programmer will never go hungry ... and it's still true :-)
MS stack will be high quality and used by clients with $$$ for the rest of your career.
With that said, any serious non-MS shop will be happy to have your experience and so switching up stacks shouldn't be a problem either if you find a good team.
I would just apply broadly and go from there.
- zohch 5y ago> MS stack will be high quality As someone who has used the MS stack, I have yet to witness anything I would call high quality.
- xeromal 5y agolol, C# (.net) is a fantastic language with some of the world's best language designers taking part in its initial creation and updates. It has regular improvements and is LEAGES more well-design than JavaScript and I'd say Java. Sure, it's no GO, but it is ever evolving.
- R0b0t1 5y agoC# is great, but a lot of the supporting libs like Blazr are not.
- xeromal 5y agoOne thing Microsoft does that Google does not is persistently push their garbage until it's actually not bad. Blazr is relatively new compared to Microsoft's other libs but I'm sure in 5-10 years, it will be solid. It took .net core years before it became decent.
- itsdrewmiller 5y agoJust like silverlight amiright
- xeromal 5y agoWe don't talk about silverlight. Haha.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoSigh. Often MS software is not understood by those that criticize it.
- blibble 5y ago> MS stack will be high quality I've yet to experience a MS product that I would consider to be "high quality" (including Azure)
- throwawaybbqed 5y agoAzure is not bad compared to the options. Also, MSFT is throwing a lot of brain power at it (notable systems researchers from MSR). Curious what you consider is better?
- blibble 5y agomost of my bad experience with Azure is the control interface, which is worse than AWS/GCP in every way random incomprehensible error messages, near constant UI timeouts and terrible UI performance and experience (artifact deployment has been "skipped"? why? no way to know), etc the Windows VMs are also extremely slow compared to my employer's non-azure VM, with the Azure VMs having double the VCPUs, disk IOPS and RAM (despite having the same "stack" deployed on it)
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoI haven't experienced these UI problems despite regular use of Azure. The VM speed I can't comment on.
- yokoprime 5y agoWhy the same quote and reply with both your accounts?
- blibble 5y agoit's possible that more than one person thinks that Microsoft products are less than high quality
- kcartlidge 5y ago> I've yet to experience a MS product that I would consider to be "high quality" (including Azure) Most aren't. Some are. As with all software/ecosystem providers.
- Jensson 5y agoDo any programmers go hungry?
- Melatonic 5y agoDefinitely not in his lifetime at least! I imagine in two or three hundred years though we will have moved past COBOL completely. That being said the idea of some future advanced civilization trying to wake up some old programmer from cryo sleep so they can decipher an ancient mainframe that is still somehow running does make me laugh!