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I work for one too and it's hard to even discuss Git itself with someone here; most people just know SVN. The stack in my industry is very stagnant and I think a lot of people just learned what they had to when they were still young and became set in their ways. They have families now and coding has become a 9-to-5 chore; they're not interested in keeping a portfolio up to date or even trying anything new.

I'd presume most people who come to HN are interested in evolving their skill set. The common worn-out office drone doesn't visit HN.

I find that Sublime Text with the GoSublime plugin works pretty well. There's "Intellisense" for imported packages and GsLint actively detects syntax errors. Gofmt also takes care of indentation and formatting for you at every save.

To be fair, COBOL stopped evolving a long time ago, while .NET hasn't. He's in his fifties, but he's not working on legacy code; he grew up with the tip of Microsoft's technology. For example, he has pet projects on Azure and just completed a project at work in .NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 6. Sure, it's still a lock-in, and potentially dangerous, but nowhere near as COBOL or Fortran.

That sure is my boat, alright.

If you don't mind me asking, how big are your DBs? That price is surprisingly fair. And out of curiosity, do you still use your Macbook, but with Windows on it?

In a work environment, I don't really mind learning one thing over another (I normally wouldn't touch Java otherwise, for example). I agree that you have to choose the right tool for the job.

My dilemma is more towards choosing a preferred platform. I've been interning for a large enterprise since the beginning of my studies, and would like to try working for or starting a startup eventually. And that's when choosing Microsoft isn't as easy as choosing anything else, even though I would like to.

I've only interned at large enterprises so far, but I'd eventually like to start or work in a startup, which is why costs come into play for me.

Right now, if I want to make a site in Django, I can just get a $5 VM and spin up the rest for free, regardless of my goal. The same can't be said for an ASP.NET website, unless I'm underestimating Azure's free tier or something.

I live in Montreal.