Read the article carefully. This guy has a point. Zipfs law applies to software stacks. There is always a leader , the second and third place drops off exponen

Read the article carefully. This guy has a point. Zipfs law applies to software stacks. There is always a leader , the second and third place drops off exponentially. So, in .NET, the leader is obviously MS with its tooling. However, these tools aren't as lightweight for someone who came from Ruby and command line tools. While scripting is possible, one has to patch together the information from various sources. @jimbobimbo has said that it is possible to script. But it took him weeks. There is no obvious .NET stack (by stack I mean Build, Test, Deploy) that champions lightweight systems. VS writes tools for software stacks. Not quick dirty scripts. This is the only thing they get paid big $$$ for. However, it is not actually what the customer wants. The customer wants a solid runtime, easy to debug stacks and fast turnaround. I believe NuGet is a step in the right direction, usable from both Powershell and VS Shell. However, it is going to take another generation before MS starts to understand how to make the rest of their infrastructure scriptable.