The ironic thing? GitHub, VS Code, and TypeScript are all Microsoft products.
In my head, when I think Microsoft I think about the stress and anger I feel using Windows, and the OS-level notification I got apropos of nothing a few minutes ago trying to sell me an Xbox Game Pass subscription. The fear of what is going to break in the next forced update. For months now I haven't been able to do a task as simple as take a screenshot on my PC because seemingly the flash effect it plays gets caught in the image and the resulting screenshot has all the colors blown out, so it's mostly white.
So yes, this does color my opinion of how many ecosystems of theirs I want to tie myself too (minimal)
TypeScript though I had no idea about! Good for them!
> GitHub was purchased, which is a bit different.
Do we make an exemption for SharePoint because it, too, is an extension of FrontPage acquired via Vermeer?[0]
At what point does it lose its exemption from "Hate All Things Microsoft"? 10 years? 20 years?
It only matters in the context of it being "ironic" that it is used and favored in the coding community.
Microsoft contributions to Python?
Do they all trigger some weird instant irrational reaction?
I would never have predicted Microsoft would still be developing a (sort of) Github competitor after acquiring Github. Why not plow all of that focus and energy into making Github the best project management system around? Project management in Github is one of the biggest gripes people have - even on Teams and Enterprise.
That said, Microsoft is never going to be able to completely kill Azure DevOps. If nothing else, they'll have to keep it alive for enterprise customers' TFVC source control history.
Surely there's a migration path to git from TFVC? Many large projects successfully moved from CVS and SVN into git.
I'm just surprised that, after 7 years of owning Github, Microsoft hasn't plowed their resources into Github's Projects. It's literally the number one complaint I see regarding project management inside Github - and would likely be an easy way to scale subscriptions for Teams and Enterprise. Heck, today it's still impossible to generate a Burn Down chart without using 3rd party "Apps" or the API.
If you need branch history, or more than 180 days worth of history, the only option is third-party tooling (git-tfs). It seems to work good enough for development purposes (i.e. git blame)... but I'm not sure if it's good enough if we need the history for legal purposes.
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In fact when Microsoft purchased GitHub, quite a few people did leave and close their account. But GitHub already had such a monumental market lead that the departures ended up being a drop in the ocean.
To be honest, I’m still waiting for the moment when Microsoft managed to fuck it all up like they did with Skype.
If you write a project in C#, you've committed to it and it's ecosystem. Getting out of there when MS makes a choice you don't agree with is going to be near impossible.