[AdamN]

Reminds me of a CS professor telling me that a COBOL programmer will never go hungry ... and it's still true :-)

MS stack will be high quality and used by clients with $$$ for the rest of your career.

With that said, any serious non-MS shop will be happy to have your experience and so switching up stacks shouldn't be a problem either if you find a good team.

I would just apply broadly and go from there.

[Melatonic]

Definitely not in his lifetime at least!

I imagine in two or three hundred years though we will have moved past COBOL completely. That being said the idea of some future advanced civilization trying to wake up some old programmer from cryo sleep so they can decipher an ancient mainframe that is still somehow running does make me laugh!

[blibble]

> MS stack will be high quality

I've yet to experience a MS product that I would consider to be "high quality" (including Azure)

[kcartlidge]

> I've yet to experience a MS product that I would consider to be "high quality" (including Azure)

Most aren't. Some are. As with all software/ecosystem providers.

[throwawaybbqed]

Azure is not bad compared to the options. Also, MSFT is throwing a lot of brain power at it (notable systems researchers from MSR). Curious what you consider is better?

[blibble]

most of my bad experience with Azure is the control interface, which is worse than AWS/GCP in every way

random incomprehensible error messages, near constant UI timeouts and terrible UI performance and experience (artifact deployment has been "skipped"? why? no way to know), etc

the Windows VMs are also extremely slow compared to my employer's non-azure VM, with the Azure VMs having double the VCPUs, disk IOPS and RAM (despite having the same "stack" deployed on it)

[hackerfromthefu]

I haven't experienced these UI problems despite regular use of Azure.

The VM speed I can't comment on.

[yokoprime]

Why the same quote and reply with both your accounts?

[blibble]

it's possible that more than one person thinks that Microsoft products are less than high quality

[Jensson]

Do any programmers go hungry?

[zohch]

> MS stack will be high quality

As someone who has used the MS stack, I have yet to witness anything I would call high quality.

[xeromal]

lol, C# (.net) is a fantastic language with some of the world's best language designers taking part in its initial creation and updates.

It has regular improvements and is LEAGES more well-design than JavaScript and I'd say Java.

Sure, it's no GO, but it is ever evolving.

[R0b0t1]

C# is great, but a lot of the supporting libs like Blazr are not.

[xeromal]

One thing Microsoft does that Google does not is persistently push their garbage until it's actually not bad.

Blazr is relatively new compared to Microsoft's other libs but I'm sure in 5-10 years, it will be solid. It took .net core years before it became decent.

[itsdrewmiller]

Just like silverlight amiright

[xeromal]

We don't talk about silverlight. Haha.

[hackerfromthefu]

Sigh. Often MS software is not understood by those that criticize it.