Why is there so much hate for .NET?

Re:Why is there so much hate for .NET? by YoAdrian on Friday June 06, 2014 @04:16PM (#7860072)

Welcome to my world. The only reason that ASP was created and therefore .NET was because years ago, the Allaire brothers told Microsoft "no thanks" when they tried to purchase their programming language called ColdFusion. Since 1997, when I started developing with CF, I've heard nothing but derision no matter how well it can handle complex tasks with ease. Every few months, someone without a clue but a huge audience posts another "death of ColdFusion" article and here come all the Ruby/Node/PHP fanboys piling on the hate.

Never mind that ColdFusion runs on the JVM.

Never mind that ColdFusion 11 was released a few weeks ago.

Never mind that there are TWO open source CFML engines out there.

Never mind that ColdFusion 12 is already under development.

And I don't hate .NET at all. Or Rudy or Node (can't stand PHP, but that's another matter).

Guess what? It's all the SAME S--T, different SYNTAX.

You know which language I love the most? Whichever one someone is currently paying me to use.

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Re:Why is there so much hate for .NET? by krsunny on Sunday June 08, 2014 @11:36AM (#7864927)

You make some good points about Coldfusion but the death of Coldfusion is not the language itself or the support and dedication from Adobe, the death is in the job market and demand for it.

Have you looked into Ruby or Node? Compared to Coldfusion and PHP, it to me seems like a new paradigm in web development with tools such as NPM for Node, build tools like Grunt and Gulp.. again, to me, these things make CF and PHP seem old school.

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Re:Why is there so much hate for .NET? by Nemcue on Saturday June 07, 2014 @05:39AM (#7861711)

Cars all have four wheels; yet they are very different. Same goes for programming languages, perhaps even more so. Ecosystem matters. Syntax matters. Available programmers matters.

It's not "all the same shit".

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