> You kind of just described Linux, Unix, modern Web dev, iOS dev, Android dev etc.

More devs seem to have this opinion of Microsoft technologies though. Their desktop OS is the most dreaded as a platform, and the most dreaded of any OS except for Android (by 4‰, and of course devs already killed Windows Mobile)¹. And even more relevant to the link we’re discussing, another relatively low-barrier-to-entry language they created is the single most-hated programming language there is².

¹https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-mo... ²https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-mo...