[palavrov]

Don't even think to continue with Microsoft. Focus on *nix + node.js (MEAN). Probably you will need a prove for these words, sorry - I don't want to spend hours writing arguments and examples. Just one thing: I spend 10 years with .net and even participate in bizspark - it was endless pain and big waste of time, resources and energy. Microsoft only goal is to sell more Windows licenses - everything is around that, it is like big wall and you will realise that when you hit it with your head. World has changed, Microsoft don't know how to survive when hardware and software are so cheap (less than $100 for hardware, less than $10 for software).

[korzun]

> Don't even think to continue with Microsoft. Focus on *nix + node.js (MEAN).

Or you know, do your research and figure out what you want to focus on outside of Windows stack. Not what some guy on HN wrote.

[collyw]

MEAN.

Mongo, great for unstructured data where horizontal scalability is important. Node great for many concurrent asynchronous connections. Angular is apparently very good at what it does, but is probably overkill unless you want to specifically develop larger scale single page apps.

On the other hand if you want to develop useful software quickly and efficiently for the other 95% of use cases, choose something more general purpose like a relational database and Rails / Django.