trying to find a job that doesn’t involve microsoft products right now (mostly because i have no experience with the stack) and it is rough. all the government agencies around are completely dependent on dotnet.
You just need to give it a different spin; you are here to help them move off microslop and other american big tech companies. It will be a slow process but a required one.
Governments have pretty hard requirements which big tech have likely help form to lock themselves in so it will be rather hard, but I am glad they are doing it.
I honestly dont ses why these companies that are so focused on costs are not cutting these bloated services.
not easy in orgs with thousands of devs and decades of software, unfortunately
I have a positive impression on .NET, curious to see that being put down… Are you talking about .NET as a whole, or things like ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, EF, MAUI? Because as far as I know at least C# is open source and a good language with a good ecosystem, but the Microsoft libraries are windows only and are being pushed pretty hard.
it’s open source now, but it wasn’t when microsoft aggressively lobbied all of europe to adopt it in the early noughts.
like, why would you start a new project in dotnet today unless you need it to interface with the microsoft stack somehow?
why would you start a new project in dotnet today
Because I think C# is a good programming language to work with, it’s really that simple. I’d need a serious reason not to use it, and “made by Microsoft” doesn’t really change much when, to my knowledge, it’s not under their sole control and isn’t burdened by licensing issues. The Microsoft stack is something I’d want to avoid, and depending on the task I’ll want different programming languages, of course.
