Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by MartinCron 4378 days ago
Yeah, I don't see this problem. Maybe I'm just an outlier, but when I was a .NET developer, I would use non-MS tools all the time. Git is better than TFS, just as nUnit is better than MSTest. TeamCity is better than TFS. Visual Studio with ReSharper is better than Visual Studio without.

Good technologists will use a heterogeneous toolkit no matter what ecosystem they're working in.
1 comments
jonathanoliver 4378 days ago
The trouble is that "the ordained path" is MS tooling all the way. I suppose there's a lot of pressure on MS to provide a prescribed method and they're satisfying a market demand, but when I worked in .NET I had to make very deliberate choices about avoiding MS tooling and keeping it pinned back into a corner of my project. If left unchecked, it would try to dominate by default.
link
SideburnsOfDoom 4378 days ago
> The trouble is that "the ordained path" is MS tooling all the way

Every .Net shop that I've walked into, "the ordained path", speaking about the coding culture, was nUnit, TeamCity, Resharper, svn (later git) etc. Maybe you worked at the wrong places.

My anecdote doesn't trump your anecdote, but the reverse is also true.

link