Some of this criticism was outdated already, or has gone out of date since.
WebForms (with their underlying concept of abstracting away how web really works) were already in decline two years ago, replaced by MVC.
As a former C# developer, turned Android developer, of course I have to admit there is some walled garden mentality among .NET devs, but I think they get stigmatized for that way more than average. If a Rubyist never sticks nose outside their beloved technology stack, noone makes such a big deal out of it.
Also it's nothing in compare to vitriolic anti-M$ hater mentality, often directed at developers themselves.
Or bizarre anti .NET-bias, case in point: http://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-... (I'm sure Jon Skeet was devastated).
And what's changed since 2013? Quite a lot: Roslyn... open-sourcing .NET...
WebForms (with their underlying concept of abstracting away how web really works) were already in decline two years ago, replaced by MVC.
As a former C# developer, turned Android developer, of course I have to admit there is some walled garden mentality among .NET devs, but I think they get stigmatized for that way more than average. If a Rubyist never sticks nose outside their beloved technology stack, noone makes such a big deal out of it.
Also it's nothing in compare to vitriolic anti-M$ hater mentality, often directed at developers themselves.
Or bizarre anti .NET-bias, case in point: http://blog.expensify.com/2011/03/25/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-... (I'm sure Jon Skeet was devastated).
And what's changed since 2013? Quite a lot: Roslyn... open-sourcing .NET...