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Apart from the employee part, Sundar has driven next to no innovation, and has made Google manager-heaven. I was a huge Google fan, but I'm finding it harder an
by m00x 3y ago
Apart from the employee part, Sundar has driven next to no innovation, and has made Google manager-heaven. I was a huge Google fan, but I'm finding it harder and harder to fool myself that they have a bright future.
While Microsoft is becoming a developer haven, Google is moving into their Steve Ballmer era.
- bagacrap 3y agoNothing about the way Microsoft treats their employees makes me wanna work there.
- MuffinFlavored 3y ago> While Microsoft is becoming a developer haven How so? Windows 11 and Edge are “desperate”. I hate .NET/C#. Mac OS X/iOS/Apple rule.
- jamies 3y agoGitHub, Visual Studio Code, Copilot, Azure. Need I go on?
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- richbell 3y agoGitHub. Azure. Windows Terminal. Windows Subsystem for Linux. Cross-platform .Net. Visual Studio Code (and the other one) WinGet Packafe Manager. Rust for Windows. Etc.
- rkho 3y agoWSL and Powertoys (specifically Fancyzones) has gotten me over the hump of transitioning to Windows at my desk. I still love my Macbook Pro, but I no longer feel the need to plug it into an external display. The only thing I consistently miss is iMessage.
- jacooper 3y agoWhich you can replace with matrix + an I message bridge if you are desperate enough.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agothey acquired github azure is less good/playing catchup/copying the innovation of AWS WSL is a glorified Linux VM .NET is a zoo VS Code is Atom++ which is Electron Rust is good, cargo and rustc working on Windows has nothing to do with Microsoft
- pjmlp 3y agoActually Microsoft has hired several Rust developers after Mozilla layoffs, so it has to do with them. Also C++/WinRT team nowadays seems to have lost interest on it, and is having lots of fun in Rust/WinRT instead.
- pjmlp 3y ago.NET is great, for those doing Azure workloads, those suffering the GUI civil wars, or the .NET Framework features/libraries that aren't available on .NET Core reboot, or the .NET Native missing features from Native AOT, not so much.
- rwalle 3y ago"I hate .NET/C#" With that, I doubt you are seriously here looking for answers... Windows 11 and Edge are aggressively pushing ads and are bad, but I have to point out that Windows 11 has a ton of improvements otherwise, so much that I joined a pilot of Windows 11 at work (most machines are still on Windows 11 currently).
- htag 3y ago> While Microsoft is becoming a developer haven, Google is moving into their Steve Ballmer era. I've never heard anyone describe Microsoft as a developer haven. Is this because Redmond is soaking up South Lake Union layoffs?
- m00x 3y agoThey improved Github a lot since acquiring it. They made VS Code, TS, etc. Most of us are using MSFT tools for daily development.
- pjmlp 3y agoEveryone burned by everything that was touched by WinRT/UAP/UWP/WinAPPSDK migration, .NET Native deprecation, C++/CX deprecation, Xamarin to MAUI migration, .NET Framework to .NET Core migration,...doesn't feel like being in developer heaven. Developer heaven on modern Microsoft is only anything that relates to Azure or XBox.
- htag 3y agoFirst they were promising haven. Now heaven. I admit, I haven't lost my suspicion of Microsoft since the browser wars, but these statements do more to put me at unease. Xbox is the _latest_ product by Microsoft to be accused of anti-compeitive behavior. It's also significantly less open than even Windows.
- pjmlp 3y agoIt goes to show how Windows desktop development experience was brought down due to the GUI civil war going on Redmond.
- m00x 3y agoI don't mean Windows development. Microsoft has vscode, github, copilot, GPT integrations, Typescript, etc.