Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by bgorman on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:16PM (#17210401)

I have never seen any good .NET code in the wild. A typical story IMO is to come into a workplace where they are trying to dump legacy .NET systems as soon as possible because they are incredibly brittle. .NET seems to be one of the biggest software scams of all time. Great vendor lock-in though. Visual Studio, MS-SQL, LINQ, Entity framework etc... the only solution is to rewrite everything.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by emodendroket on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:18PM (#17210421)

I don't know what you're on about. C# is basically a "better Java" so there's no particular reason you can't write good software in it.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Sylos on Saturday June 02, 2018 @03:34AM (#17213304)

That's very subjective. C# has tons of useless keywords that you just know some arrogant dev is going to use because they can, which then no junior can work with. It also has a worse ecosystem for writing server software (while obviously a better ecosystem for writing Windows applications) and is less suitable for cross-platform work.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by emodendroket on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:18AM (#17214222)

It is subjective, but things like genetics and reflection I think are better in C#. I am not sure which keywords you think are "useless." Either way though, they're quite similar. There is no innate quality about C# where the code has to be terrible and the only hope is a total rewrite in something else.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Const-me on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:59AM (#17214375)

> is less suitable for cross-platform work

I have hands-on experience with Unity3D and .NET Core 2. Both are cross-platform and worked relatively well. I’ve built MacOS, iOS, Android software with Unity, and Linux software with .NET Core.

I’ve heard Xamarin is also good for mobiles but haven’t personally used it.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by oaiey on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:42AM (#17213544)

Can you elaborate on this "keyword" statement? I find the statement very confusing especially when comparing it to C, modern C++, modern Java or any functional "magic" languages.

The second part is true. .NET does not share the same wide ecosystem as Java.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Zekio on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:25PM (#17210500)

I would say StackOverflow is a pretty good example

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Roboprog on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:15PM (#17210937)

Stack Overflow works pretty well.

But perhaps not without some pain for those involved making it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by emodendroket on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:39AM (#17214302)

I've done legacy work in both and I'd never choose Ruby over C#. It might be a little faster to write the code the first time around, but maintaining a big legacy project stinks.

Also, none of Atwood's reasons is "I don't like working in C#." And several of the concerns in this post are obsolete.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Roboprog on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @06:29PM (#17251657)

Actually, I find Ruby code much easier to look at than most Java / C# UglyCapsRunOn word-soup. YMMV.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by emodendroket on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:54PM (#17253126)

Well who cares about that, really. I'm not talking about how pretty the code is; I'm talking about the ease of maintaining it. Ruby code frequently requires digging through the method and methods it calls to figure out the expected input.

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