Ask HN: Any Hope? Developer Switching from MS .Net Development to Free and Open?
I have been a Microsoft .net developer for the past 15 years. I have grown quite frustrated at the direction of Microsoft and the ecosystem. I yearn for running lightweight tools (not the overly bloated visual studio that you must supercomputer to get descent performance). All the innovation seems to come out of the open source community and Microsoft just tries to copy to keep its developers...