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Re: .NET is "hated by the developer community"

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 13:15 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>>>>>>> http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_27/b4235053917570.htm
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> . "open-source-code software favored by developers"
>>>>>>> . "Using .NET is like Fred Flintstone building a database"
>>>>>>> . "[.NET] flexibility is minimal"
>>>>>>> . "[.NET] is hated by the developer community"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hehe!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No wonder Microsoft is departing from it and mobile developers ignore it
>>>>>> (Xamarin/Miguel do try to push it onto them).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I dunno, that guy seems to have a bug up his ass about .NET.  It seems
>>>>> like
>>>>> a pretty big API to be inflexible.  With C# it seems very powerful,
>>>>> although anyone who thinks it is easier or more powerful than C++ will get
>>>>> some argument from me.
>>>>
>>>> It's a Java ripoff. Almost everything from Microsoft and Apple is a ripoff
>>>> of something.
>>> 
>>> Sure.  Everyone gets ideas from someone else and goes from there.  C#
>>> "steals" from more than just Java.
>>> 
>>> However, take a look at a nice thick C# tome from O'Reilly sometime, and see
>>> just how much material there is there, over and above "Java" ripoffs.  I
>>> greatly prefer C++, and haven't found anything better for general-purpose
>>> programming, but, as a language and API, C#/.NET do have something powerful
>>> to offer, even with the churning and weird concepts (e.g. boxing/unboxing).
>>
>> Well, it's like saying that the Rover can do all sorts of nice things on
>> Mars (Windows).  Let's see what it can do on Planet Earth (cross-platform)
>> where it has more competition.
> 
> It's just another vendor's "stack".  If it weren't for Microsoft's control
> of the whole platform, it would just be another dev stack to compare to the
> offerings of other vendors.

Name major sites (hubs like Amazon) that run .NET.

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