Things have really changed at Microsoft

[KBU2]

I've recently taken a look at Microsoft's development tools, and what they now offer is nothing short of astonishing. Gone are the days of Steve Balmer's closed minded "Linux is a cancer" view. No, Microsoft are now embracing the open source movement. Last night I was able to install the ASP.NET Core SDK and runtime on my Ubuntu system, and get a .NET web app up and running in minutes. Visual Studio Code is open source, available on Github, and runs on Ubuntu. And the documentation for all this stuff is absolutely amazing.
I haven't had a great opinion of Microsoft in the past, but they are really looking very progressive now. Must say, it's a good strategy for them. Kudos MS!

How much is Microsoft paying you to Purge that BS. Microsoft sucks.

 

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How much is Microsoft paying you to Purge that BS. Microsoft sucks.

Nah I'm not an MS shill. I just keep an open mind. I don't take a blinkered view of world.
MS may suck in a lot of ways, but if you're a developer and took the time to see what they've done with .NET Core, then you'll realise they've looked at the current web development landscape, and incorporated the very best modern techniques into this framework.
What they produced before (ASP .NET dynamic web pages) was absolute garbage, but with .NET Core, they've really built something that rivals anything in the open source Java ecosystem.
If you want to discuss further about the pros/cons of say, .NET Core and C# versus Java and Spring MVC, I'm happy to do so.