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Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why by sixothree on Monday July 01, 2013 @11:29AM (#5971266)
And the list seems to be missing the most important point.

    The .Net Framework is extremely powerful and extensive.
The number of problems the framework has prevented me from needing to solve is staggering. We get work done here, fast.

Eg. Recently I had to convert times from any random time zone into another random timezone accounting for daylight savings etc. I cannot imagine having to solve that problem in just about any other language suggested in this comment section.

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Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why by regularfry on Monday July 01, 2013 @12:25PM (#5971663)
Anything with access to jodatime (or nodatime, for that matter) would find that a pretty trivial problem.

In my experience you get more built-in with .net, but richer third-party ecosystems elsewhere.

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