Perhaps we’re looking at different time frames or different locations, but as for your last paragraph, I’ve observed a qualitative shift in .NET job postings ov

Perhaps we’re looking at different time frames or different locations, but as for your last paragraph, I’ve observed a qualitative shift in .NET job postings over the past two years. Several years ago, lots of jobs used to be posted by the proverbial .NET sweatshops and outstaffing agencies. These days, quite the opposite—lots of greenfield projects, lots of enterprise projects not even running on Microsoft software infrastructure, that is, not based on Windows and not related to document processing on the Office suites, not even on Azure. Great salaries. I’ve found Microsoft’s developer-targeted marketing campaigns rather annoying. But it’s been professional and even fascinating from the point of view of marketing proper. What I disliked was the few occasions of overreach against the community. I think .NET has been gaining traction, albeit not uniformly across the world and not at a fast pace, which is reasonable due to the already huge community—you just don’t get to grow that fast in relative terms when you’re already this huge.