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Comment by jordache | Hacker News Reader

startups generally do not use .NET

The reality is the opposite. Many non-SV "startups" do use .NET, along with thousands of new small businesses and every single Fortune 500.

False. Maybe YCombinator/Hacker News startups rarely use .NET, but have you heard of Microsoft's BizSpark program? .NET is really popular with startups internationally as well as in middle USA.

Azure works with plenty of open source technologies. Just because a stack is hosted in Azure, doesn't mean it's inherently a .NET stack

Yeah, but only 1 in 3 Azure deployments are Linux, Linux support is recent, and BizSpark has been around since 2009. The fact is– if you dismiss the .NET startups you are certainly ignoring part of the picture.

It's not about Linux deployments.

Our nodeJS and angular deployments in Azure's managed app services are hosted in IIS.

If you are only counting the OS as an indication of .NET or no .NET, your numbers are severely inaccurate.

I could count on a single hand the amount of job postings for 'startup/startup-ish' companies that had a .net stack.

Edit: https://stackshare.io/application_and_data#! Somewhat anecdotal but still better than nothing..

The point about hosting node via IIS is interesting, but doesn't refute the point.

Stack Overflow (and all the Stack Exchange sites) is in .NET

There are currently 200+ angel list jobs that require .NET

The stackshare link is not helpful because stackshare is something popular in the HN community. .NET is an incredibly popular framework outside of the SF/HN bubble. Startups around the globe and in middle America use .NET all the time.

what should I learn then?

Ruby, Golang, Serverside JS (aka NodeJS) or Python would be a start

Startups do not use Ruby anymore as well.

if you want to continue down the full stack path.. Learn JS really well. Then pick up node and a front end framework..

They do in Seattle. The majority of the Seattle tech scene uses Microsoft, and Microsoft is still considered "cool" there.

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