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Say what you want about the culture but I've found MS's stack to be quite good with the right team. It's got some great features. LINQ in particular springs t
by saryant 14y ago
Say what you want about the culture but I've found MS's stack to be quite good with the right team. It's got some great features. LINQ in particular springs to mind.
There are plenty of terrific systems built atop that stock. StackOverflow is implemented in ASP.NET, for instance.
- rjzzleep 14y agodude! microsoft is not just enterprise. they have the biggest r&d lab with some really awesome shit going on. linq is made by the haskell guy. well the haskell guy was a microsoft guy. but you get the idea. it did not grow inside of the .net enterprise culture. it grew outside of it. I never had any qualms about c# as a language. but that's also not what we're discussing. just like f# is wonderful. but it too did not grow inside, but outside. they're being really smart about tying it into the enterprise as much as possible therefore guaranteeing it's future though.
- raverbashing 14y agoI agree I'll take C# over Java any day. Hands down. It has its warts, sure, but it's night and day. I can't pin it down, but the C# libraries seem much more natural to me. Of course, if the team culture is not good, it's going to be messy, either in Java, C#, Python, etc