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Would your reaction have been different if, instead of Microsoft, this article was submitted by some random person entitled "Show HN: I built a reverse proxy in
by assttoasstmgr 5y ago
Would your reaction have been different if, instead of Microsoft, this article was submitted by some random person entitled "Show HN: I built a reverse proxy in C#"?
By your logic, the world should be operating on a single OS, with a single web browser, paired with a single web server, because why re-implement something that already exists?
- pydry 5y agoPretty much every "I built a thing" post is met with the same response. MS isnt special. I think pretty much every open source project that wants to be taken seriously needs to compare itself with its competitors.
- assttoasstmgr 5y agoFrom what I can tell they built a tool for themselves to use internally, and open-sourced it. I don't think they were looking for approval or to be taken seriously. Similarly, Igor built nginx to solve a particular problem, and I think it was a few years before it went open-source. I can't imagine most OSS developers have delusions of grandeur.
- throwuxiytayq 5y agoGiven that pretty much all of the recent Microsoft's open-source projects under the .NET umbrella, including ASP.NET Core, have been a resounding success in terms of communiry adoption, I don't think they're very shy about comparisons. I expect some of the comments under this post to age very badly.
- pjmlp 5y agoNope, if it is an HN hyped language it gets all the love of the day, Ruby, Clojure, Rust,....