Why one .NET developer is leaving the ecosystem
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
Exactly why I went looking for a full time job 10 years ago instead of consulting. Technologies are like picking stocks; sometimes they go up and sometimes they go down, but they never stay up forever. The last thing I wanted to do is continue to guess and waste time picking the wrong technologies and chasing that magic technology that would bring me riches.
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
2 points. 1. Angel leaves .Net environment, who cares 2. Not everybody should be Android Dev.
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2 points. 1. Angel leaves .Net environment, who cares 2. Not everybody should be Android Dev.
Member 11394652 wrote:
Angel leaves .Net environment, who cares
Well, I'm guessing Angel cares, so there's one. Besides, do you realize what that means? Now .NET development is where Angels fear to tread! :)
TTFN - Kent
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
Justin Angel confuses percentages with hard numbers. Because of mobile device development, more development jobs overall exist. C# now holds a smaller percentage of software development jobs, but its demand hasn't gone down. Also, of the "obsolete" technologies he listed, only Silverlight is truly losing support. Furthermore, all ecosystems over time receive new frameworks, libraries, and API's to adjust to newer trends in software development (not just the .NET ecosystem); you can't criticize .NET for coming out with new API's all the time without also criticizing all development platforms. And the Java/Android ecosystem he moved to has its own problems (and its own host of doomsday prophets, too).
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
Full respect for anyone, but that looks like the "money" perspective of the programming jobs. I develop for solving problems: phones aren't solving me too much, but desktops still hold the (mandatory) way to super-view machines and automation in general. In my opinion, the numbers might be real but that does not imply the C#/.Net is an obsolete world. At all.
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
Angel left .NET, but Justin took it up! All is balanced! All is round! ;P
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Justin Angel confuses percentages with hard numbers. Because of mobile device development, more development jobs overall exist. C# now holds a smaller percentage of software development jobs, but its demand hasn't gone down. Also, of the "obsolete" technologies he listed, only Silverlight is truly losing support. Furthermore, all ecosystems over time receive new frameworks, libraries, and API's to adjust to newer trends in software development (not just the .NET ecosystem); you can't criticize .NET for coming out with new API's all the time without also criticizing all development platforms. And the Java/Android ecosystem he moved to has its own problems (and its own host of doomsday prophets, too).
jesarg wrote:
Justin Angel confuses percentages with hard numbers
Maybe he works with economy? :rolleyes:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Angel spent the last dozen years in the .NET ecosystem. He even helped to build it during his time working at Microsoft and Nokia.
One down, several million remain
Leaving C#/.NET for Java/Android? Seriously? And why is every other Angel asking for the death of .NET? I don't see it dying anytime soon.