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vlionI can confidently say that I have developed a pathological dislike of Microsoft & its technologies. This is not even going into the libre software issue.
.NET is obscurely and weirdly extensible at run time and compile time, depending on what references are brought in. I have never used a language system with such spooky action at a distance. I spent part of the morning adding references to my project and iterating until all the references were added. This is SO what I had thought I'd avoid with a static language. I think that the way things are done in MS is that libraries modify existing types without inheritance, protocols, etc. I express extreme violence at this foolishness.
IIS: Now instead of quickly editing a file, saving, and bouncing apache, I have to point and click through the config. I thought MS pro tools were better than this.
I'm not even going into the idiotic inability to SSH into remote Windows servers, the confusing and overengineered webdev libraries... AND MORE.
I loathe this system I do not understand how anyone would voluntarily choose it in 2013. Anything seems better than this horrid entanglement of GUIs, bad library design, bad ecosystem design, etc. Yes, I am missing Python, something I thought I'd never say.
Perhaps down the road, I can carve out a "Weirdo" niche in the company where I do weird stuff with weird languages and weird technologies.
I also think I will be brushing up on Java next time I look for work down the road (quite some time from now).
.NET is obscurely and weirdly extensible at run time and compile time, depending on what references are brought in. I have never used a language system with such spooky action at a distance. I spent part of the morning adding references to my project and iterating until all the references were added. This is SO what I had thought I'd avoid with a static language. I think that the way things are done in MS is that libraries modify existing types without inheritance, protocols, etc. I express extreme violence at this foolishness.
IIS: Now instead of quickly editing a file, saving, and bouncing apache, I have to point and click through the config. I thought MS pro tools were better than this.
I'm not even going into the idiotic inability to SSH into remote Windows servers, the confusing and overengineered webdev libraries... AND MORE.
I loathe this system I do not understand how anyone would voluntarily choose it in 2013. Anything seems better than this horrid entanglement of GUIs, bad library design, bad ecosystem design, etc. Yes, I am missing Python, something I thought I'd never say.
Perhaps down the road, I can carve out a "Weirdo" niche in the company where I do weird stuff with weird languages and weird technologies.
I also think I will be brushing up on Java next time I look for work down the road (quite some time from now).
