* Posts by Shane_W

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Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11

Shane_W

Every language is sacred (and "special") in it's own context

I am now a little beyond the "stereotyped" c# programmer. But am required to use VS and C# as part of my day job. In my 30+ years in the fintech industry I have used everything from Assembler on the mainframe, COBOL, Clipper, VB, C#, PHP etc. etc.

I have used the Community editions of VS from around 2007 when the first "free" IDE made it's appearance and never really missed any of the "features" in the paid for versions...

.Net Core is frankly a breath of fresh air and in the bigger scheme of things - and particularly if MS can avoid the usual bloat that occurs in time for any language - it will be my language/framework of choice for sometime to come. Being in the fintech sector, the development requirements are not particularly technically "adventurous" and the sheer number of MS dev's out there means that you have a fairly deep pool to draw on from a continuity perspective.

I feel that the generalised demographic of c# dev's is just the fact that many of the younger dev's get drawn into the "cool" social media / AI projects...unfortunately the takeup of new dev's is dwindling somewhat for the last 15 years or so as well which further shapes the rather distorted picture we have of the dev industry as a whole.