I looked for Senior Software Developer positions, and one of the things that I've noticed is that lots of enterprises look for people with experience with technologies such as .NET and C#.
I personally HATE Microsoft and their platforms. From my experience they take all the fun from developing by creating stupid compile errors with their stupid gigantic Visual Studio and buggy dependencies. Not to mention their ridiculous resources greedy and unsecured Windows OS! Also there are no healthy and independent communities around a their technologies. They don't open source much of their technologies so it would be easier to hack their tools, and harder to make security patches.
Why enterprises do that for themselves and for their developers?
Do you think enterprises will make a turn in this attitude?
.NET has been around for two decades. It's a well established technology with plenty of resources, documentation and libraries and frameworks. I guess these are in part the reason it's still thriving.
You're thinking about .NET Framework reading your opinions on it, .NET (Microsoft is terrible at naming) is the "newest" standard and it's fully open source and cross platform. They removed Windows only APIs and embraced the open source way.
While Microsoft is indeed full of shit they did a great move with .NET in the last 10 years.
You don't even need Visual Studio, I use Rider for instance and I love it! I cannot stand Visual Studio either, mostly because I hate its UI/UX.
At the end of the day is matter of preferences, I like .NET and C# and I work with these technologies daily for instance.
Also, from an enterprise point-of-view, .Net has the same advantages as Java (stability, runs everywhere, backed by a large corp) but is fundamental better designed and doesn't come with the potential legal baggage of being owned by Oracle.
I would argue that .Net is one of the best techs that Microsoft is producing at the moment. I've used it on and off for a number of years and haven't done any development targeting Windows in a decade. It's all be running on Linux servers. The dotNet works great there.
And, 100% agree with using Rider. My hierarchy of .Net IDEs is Rider->Notepad++->Visual Studio Code->manually adjusting the memory on my computer using magnets->Full Visual Studio (whatever they are calling it these days).
Is this "experienced devs" or "incoherent ramblings from a teenager"?
Your views of Microsoft and dotnet are very outdated, as you've been informed. You can develop dotnet code on Linux/Mac, Intel/arm using whatever editor or ide you like. The tooling is comparable to other language (i.e. dotnet add package ..., dotnet build, dotnet test bla bla), it's performant and imo fun.
You should check out the ASP .net core 7 minimal api, it's a great way to run a backend api (no IIS required), or write some code to control gpio on a raspberry pi, you could try out F# in vs code(ium) using the polyglot Jupyter notebook extension, or just use the repl shell...
Anyway, I just wanted to address the 'fun' factor.
Thanks for the update, I think it will be a good idea for me to try it
Microsoft certs were all the rage twenty or so years ago and as such a lot of now mid to upper management, tooling and legacy projects are based on these.
Don't take issue with the platform. Take issue with companies that are so fanatical with "we're a microsoft/java/javascript/esperanto shop!" that they'd cram it into medical devices and nuclear reactor controls before doing some sort of sober domain analysis.
Everything has its own set of problems.
First, every company uses Windows, you can't avoid this and you'll have to learn how to use all the tools (Visual Studio, Office365, everything else). Yes it sucks, no you can't use another OS if you want to eat.
As for why .NET and C#: my shitty theory is that companies used to write software in C++. Then Java came along but it was not evolving fast enough, and Oracle was suing the whole planet. Microsoft invented C# to annoy everyone (both C++ and Java) and it worked because C# is actually a good language. You have a big SDK, you can do everything that Java does, it's easier than C++, and you can use your C++ code with C++/CLI. C# was a good alternative and people used it.
Do you think enterprises will make a turn in this attitude?
C++ is too hard (I know, I use it daily), and Java is dead. I don't think companies who use C# will go back to using an older language. That would be suicidal.
You want to have a superficial little rant about how much you hate microsoft. It's uninformed and boring, and you're not going to learn anything in that mindset.
C# is an excellent language for many circumstances. If you knock off the attitude, I'd be willing to explain to you why it's so widely used.
