Re:Are .NET developers the American tourists of the software...
by meatpeople on Monday March 10, 2008 @03:36PM
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I'd agree about the insularity of the press and community around the MS ecosystem.
I got a job programming blub in VB.Net straight out of college and am writing C# at the moment. I don't have anything to back it up but I have always found a general suspicion of anything that didn't come from MS or an related source. The obvious example would be formerly non-mainstream programming features which are now getting very popular with C# 3.
It reminds me of Joel Spolskys' idea about the 'Five Worlds' - MS stuff, Java stuff, Unix etc - that they all come with fairly distinct cultures.
I got a job programming blub in VB.Net straight out of college and am writing C# at the moment. I don't have anything to back it up but I have always found a general suspicion of anything that didn't come from MS or an related source. The obvious example would be formerly non-mainstream programming features which are now getting very popular with C# 3.
It reminds me of Joel Spolskys' idea about the 'Five Worlds' - MS stuff, Java stuff, Unix etc - that they all come with fairly distinct cultures.