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Re:Microsoft acquires Github by pas on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:57AM (#17227829)
It's pretty easy for non .NET jobs too.

Their developer tools are pretty good for their own platform (but JetBrains actually makes great cross platform tools, some of them are proper free and open source, VSCode is playing catch up). Their C++ stdlib implementation was sucking balls for decades. Their (the dev tools') scriptability was horrible. PowerShell is nice, but it came too late, and it was too server focused.

C# is okay, MS has great teams and people, but they are still very much run by the bean counters.

Re:Microsoft acquires Github by karrotwaltz on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:37AM (#17228124)
MSVC's stdlib is still a headache, just see the /std flag[1] which only appeared in msvc2017: you can either have C++14 with some C++17 features, or C++ "latest" which means 17 and missing features.

EDIT: just noticed the article says it was also added to 2013, but my 2015 doesn't support it so idk.

I can conceive PowerShell being good as a scripting language, but as a day to day terminal? That would my hell. And the fact that they are forcing so much on it in win10 doesn't help.

They do produce some great things sometimes, I agree, it just doesn't average out as positive IMO.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt490614.aspx

Re:Microsoft acquires Github by Rusky on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:49PM (#17230228)
Re:Microsoft acquires Github by 72deluxe on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:07PM (#17229256)
Perhaps it should be renamed to Power Hell?
Re:Microsoft acquires Github by evfanknitram on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:17PM (#17229353)
I really enjoy PowerShell :)