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I’ve mostly worked in Microsoft shops. And I used to not like that. A lot of the guys around me adopted the attitude of, “what does Microsoft have that does tha

I’ve mostly worked in Microsoft shops. And I used to not like that. A lot of the guys around me adopted the attitude of, “what does Microsoft have that does that? “. As I’ve gotten older, I think that Microsoft has enough churn of their own. But it’s far less than opening up to the wild west that is GitHub entirely. I’m pretty grateful. Everything I work on is either C# or JavaScript. And I do like the abstractions and architecture that comes out of that space. It’s probably similar to a Java shop that way. A lot of the comments here sound like people are really hacking away with some short-lived library, not framework, off of GitHub in some random language that no one else on the team knows, and now the company will have to hire for forever. Or rewrite. That doesn’t sound like fun to me at all. I definitely wouldn’t build my own business on it.

sfn42 3y ago
I work the same way now and I completely agree with you. MS stuff isn't perfect and if they don't provide what I need I generally find the most popular thing on Nuget or roll my own. Meanwhile in JS land things are all over the place. My last team had multiple apps using all of the following and more: JQuery, Vue, AngularJS, React and Svelte. Design was done in Patternlab but had to be manually copied over and translated to cshtml and some parts were done in one of the aforementioned Js frameworks. To me that was a nightmare. I think most stuff didn't need any JS frameworks at all, and trying to understand pages rendered partly in cshtml and partly in a Js framework is terrible, especially when they're all different.