[mrweasel]

I consider C# / .NET to be one of the best options for application development.

Many would consider both VSCode and Visual Code pretty good. There might be better alternatives, but generally I'd say they are more good then bad. Github is also a good product. Maybe not exactly a develop tool, but Power BI is also fairly good.

Borderline developer / enterprise solution: SQLServer is great to work with. Maybe not the best relational database server, but it's every bit as capable as MariaDB and I'd prefer it over Oracle.

[Lio]

Github was a great service well before Microsoft bought it.

The best thing about Microsoft’s stewardship has been that they haven’t fucked that up.

[herbst]

Before Microsoft bought it you could still search it / codesbases without making an account. Alone for that additional pain I would argue they instantly made it worse.