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You can 100% work your way to a senior position without ever leaving windows. The people who are like that just don't tend to be hanging out on platforms like H
by pibaker 6mo ago
You can 100% work your way to a senior position without ever leaving windows. The people who are like that just don't tend to be hanging out on platforms like HN.
- noprocrasted 6mo agoTo be clear, this was developing software running on *nix environments, and they were all using Mac (or WSL) and the usual open-source *nix dev tools. This is not a case of developers purely targeting Microsoft environments (indeed it would be excusable in that case).
- mattmanser 6mo agoI am, although I have used nix occasionally. In Europe C# fills the role of Java. You're just in an American echo chamber. Now the number of senior C# engineers in Europe who couldn't fix a broken deploy on IIS or SSL cert problem on a windows server? That is rather high in the windows field too.