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Comment by epeus | Hacker News Reader

Microsoft has a very dedicated set of devs that like .Net, and for them Azure is lovely. I doubt if any of them are on Hacker News though. These will be the people this chap is talking to, so he won't see the existential threat of Cloud to microsoft.

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I work in a smallish company, with about 30 coders. I would not say that "Microsoft has" us, but C# and .Net is our primary software development environment.

We all read hacker news.

If you divide coders into two distinct categories - ".Net devs" and "hacker news readers", then you are mixing up at least 2 different things that aren't that strongly related.

There are also official SDKs for Windows Azure in Java, Python, JavaScript and PHP. You don't need to be a .NET developer to think it's a swell platform to develop for.

And node.js http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/

I own a mac and am generally a web developer and open source fan boy. That being said i develop games in C# under Windows with Visual Studio and its hands down the best development experience i had yet.

I get that feeling that alot of the hip webdevs these days think they are something special by using ruby/node/vim etc as if a experienced .NET programmer isnt worth their salt. Tell you what, John Carmack and Notch, two of the most respected programmers in the world program on Windows with (yikes!) IDEs like Visual Studio and Eclipse.

Why do you doubt we're on Hacker News?

If you're using any Microsoft technology people around here assume that you are a boring programmer that's a slave to the evil Redmond overloards and are not in anyway interested in fancy tech news that are posted in Hacker News.

Keep up the good work, you guys in the ASP.NET team are doing great :)

Cough... here.

I think a lot of people will be surprised how good the Microsoft web stack have become. They have copied a lot from java and ruby and added great tooling. I think the .Net stack from 4.0 and later is one of the best development environments, and without a doubt the one with the best commercial support. The .Net team have really done a good job and are listening to their customers (developers).

here .. and so are half the devs i work with .. ~20 people or so

Here also.

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