[pseale]

I think I need to add something to my post, because so many people are reacting badly to it.

If it helps, for context, read this article: http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/WhySilverlightIsTheFuture.aspx and then maybe my takeaways #1-4 will make better sense after you see what kind of opinions are normal in .NET land.

[dpark]

I think that other article is wrong, but it's pretty clear that it's addressing people who develop on and for Windows. It's not slamming other platforms as inferior. It's just hypothesizing about the future of development. I am not surprised when Windows developers talk about Microsoft technologies when they discuss the future, any more than I'm surprised when OSX developers talk about Apple when discussing the future.

Maybe your intent was not to openly hate .Net, but it's what you ended up doing. Your entire post was just comparing .Net to Ruby and saying that Ruby is better. It comes off as a bad sales pitch. Even in your update, you're still saying that .Net developers should try Rails. If you think that .Net developers are too isolated and close-minded, the solution is not to desperately pitch Ruby as some cure-all. There are a million ways to develop software that involve neither .Net nor Ruby, and you didn't mention any of them.

[pseale]

Thanks for the feedback, I think you've given better feedback than any of my blog commenters or blog-comment-via-new-blog-post responders.

[dpark]

You're welcome. And thanks for being much more civil than I probably deserved, considering that I started my comment with "Ugh" and went straight into a comparison with slash-fic. :)

On an unrelated note, your blog logo doesn't work for me. It shows up broken. Just FYI.