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?
Meanwhile in Ubuntu-land, a Python2 script probably just straight up doesn’t work at all.
“At least the .NET code continues to run today”. And you can setup a 20-year-old developer VM running VS2008 in practice and code “the old way” to continue to maintain the old code (that still runs on today’s machines). Meanwhile, you’re FORCED to migrate the Python2 stuff in Ubuntu-land due to a litany of incompatible changes to systemd, X.org, Python2 vs 3 issues and more.
Not just Python2, but also Bash-scripts. (Weird changes to netcat, or ipconfig, or other tools that utterly bork old scripts).
Microsoft isn’t as good at backwards compatibility as it used to be. But they’re still leagues ahead of the OSS community on this.