Man, 6 months ago I would have agreed with you. Hell I even have a year old BizSpark membership. I just couldn't get over the thought in the back of my head th

Man, 6 months ago I would have agreed with you. Hell I even have a year old BizSpark membership. I just couldn't get over the thought in the back of my head that I'm making the wrong decision investing in Microsoft's development platform. C# is literally my favorite language, but I felt trapped and missed open source... Both the freedom it brings and the community. Maybe I spend too much time on HN. I even tried to go 'indie' .NET. I moved to RavenDB (fuck MSSQL and it's overpricedness, and EF) and stuck with Azure, so really my only costs after my 3 years would be an MSDN license per developer. But in the end I just gave in to my worries. One weekend I just rewrote the damn thing in NodeJS and I'm pretty happy. No need to boot up my Windows VM anymore either. I think the talent pool is also what put me off. There seems to be - in London at least - a lot of career developers who pick .NET.