lucidquiet

'jump' -- I doubt it was hasty. Languages have issues, why stick with one when there are plenty to choose from. Of course, I like Golang, so somewhat biased -- it just appeals to my sensibilities, perhaps it does for TJ as well.

Wonder what life would have be like if instead of Java, it was Go that appeared in the 90s...

Nope, I'm not a fan of Php either actually. Mostly I rock the Java, Node, Clojure, Scala, *nix (mac), C++11 on Ubuntu and Mac with JS+Angular. I guess that's the stack mate.

I've gotten apps working on .net and ubuntu -- configuration was a drag in both, but it works, and isn't the entire basis for loving or hating a platform. So what I'm saying is I agree with your comment.

The catch here (and point) is why should you have to switch from VS at all? If it's a real source code editor shouldn't it handle Java, Clojure, Haskell, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc all just fine? Some of the oldest and free editors do and do it well. I realize MS has an agenda (perhaps) or they've de-prioritized any of these features into oblivion -- but who are they serving, I certainly didn't feel it was me even after giving them a lot of $ for VS.

The only reason I bring up Visual Studio is because most people don't even see the world out side of that IDE. "If it's not MS and it's not possible inside of Visual Studio it doesn't exist." That's how a whole lot of .NET developers, and .NET houses work -- and so that leads to my comment on VS.

I guess all those thousands of Rails apps running on Ubuntu had some kind of magic or secret knowledge to get that working. Going open source and posting some libs on Github is 'Huge'? That's kind of funny considering how much is out there, top notch, and did it way before MS did, and yet, it wasn't "huge" for them.

Too little, too late (imo). I'll think about it again once they have visual studio and all the good things running on *.nix.

It's too much of a pain to get anything to work with a .net project, and then deploy on anything other than IIS.

What about any DB? MySQL, or Postgres? Is it all Elastic Search?