[stusmall]

>He was used to doing everything the C/Java/JavaScript/Python/almost-every-language-under-the-sun way, and avoiding the "Microsoft way" of doing things created so many roadblocks.

What exactly does this mean? I haven't touched .NET in earnest in over 10 years. I know the ecosystem has evolved a lot since then, but I don't know how or in what ways

[zamalek]

As far as I remember, cloning the project, sprinkling in some printfs and running it. He didn't want to use an interactive debugger. He was used to using the likes of nvm, uv, rustup, etc.