There are a lot of people hating on Microsoft (C#, .Net ...) in devRant. And there are a lot praising StackOverflow, linux and opensource.

I wonder how it makes them feel that stackoverflow is built on .Net and C# and is not open source!

Btw, I love linux too, I just don't hate the other operating systems(companies).

I came to .NET from PHP, I definitely prefer .NET

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That's a real person! Finally someone understands.

I love .Net development.

The Microsoft stack has paid for:
- My house
- Cars
- Life struggles (health issues, etc..etc)

Currently paying for my son's college and, so far, I'm going to have a pretty nice retirement (I've maxed my 401K contribution since I started + my own personal savings/investments).

Bad-mouth Microsoft all you want. I'm pretty happy with the choices I've made.

They teach Java at most universities for CS and other courses and it bugs me because though it is cross-platform and easy to get running with on all machines it is not (in my opinion) better than C# for a lot of things. I think the only thing keeping Java alive is Android development and I think Microsoft deserves a little more for the amount of work they are doing to open-source .Net and visual studio and also bring .NET to other platforms. Like they've already done with the Powershell stuff.

C# is actually pretty good language, I dont mind it a bit.

C# and .NET are excellent. Only people who bash them are script kiddies fanboys who think `sudo` is the best and gives you "lots of freedom" but keep formatting and fresh installing their ubuntu 12 distro every 2 months.

I do use Linux for production and development env, and it's good; but by no mean it is "the best".

With c# /. NET skills you're really welcome in Germany :D

C# is nice and easy to learn. So yes a lot of people saying shit about it but it still cool

@dontbeevil I agree

@ironedr Please point out to me where I criticise the teaching of Java? Nowhere. What I'm saying is that universities should also offer extra modules/courses that introduce students to the Microsoft stack, which by the way most universities don't do (at least where I'm from). I know a lot of people who graduate and can work with Java, C++ and maybe python; then they want to go into a professional development company where they don't know jack shit about cloud, deployment and testing; meanwhile these features are built into Visual Studio and you can easily experiment with them if you are introduced to the VS and Microsoft stack properly.

@px06 I think the main reason that they teach java is that it's open source, multi-platform, there are more jobs and also is a good language to learn the most concepts of oop with.

Also, in my university we also have to learn C, Haskell and PL PgSQL (and matlab and R) and we can choose to learn C# and C++ but the main lectures (algorithms, paradigms, distributed systems etc..) are in java

I'm learning .NET this semester and I'm actually enjoying it. I'm using visual basic instead of C# though..