I don't think Microsoft was ever popular with the Startup community. The last time I did anything in that area LAMP was all the rage. I have one mate in the Start-Up community who has used ASP.NET MVC on a project, and said it stacks up okay against Rails. But he hated Entity Framework (he said he wasted days trying to get it working properly). He's since moved on to using Google's Go progamming language.
Certainly I like the direction Microsoft is going by cherry picking the best out of other technologies (e.g. lamda expressions, dynamic language run-time, and MVC). Compiler as a Service also seems to have interesting possibilities. It's certainly not growing stale like COBOL. It's when I have to help out with Java projects (despite some good libraries), it feels like a time-warp back to .Net 2.0 days. On 22 August 2013 09:47, Greg Harris <harris.gre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Microsoft are trying to fix the startup thing with Biz Spark ( > http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/) > But when they make super stuff ups like the non support of Silverlight you > do have ask what the @#$%^&* they are doing !!!!! > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk > <crai...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I don't think this will necessarily filter into the enterprise in a big. >> .NET and Java are both really strong in enterprise, as are Oracle and SQL >> Server but not that strong in startups. Enterprise and startups have >> different requirements. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Michael Ridland <rid...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> Does this eventually filter into enterprise and if so what does that >>> mean for .NET? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Michael Ridland <rid...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Python / Django / Rails. >>>> >>>> I think you would be hard press for find a .NET job on AngelList. Well >>>> actually I can see 53 companies out of 3916 that use asp.net. >>>> https://angel.co/ifttt/jobs >>>> >>>> I'm not bashing just noting my observations and wanted opinions? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rob Andrew <rand...@voyageconnect.com >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Michael, >>>>> >>>>> What is the development platform of choice for the cool kids you are >>>>> seeing? >>>>> >>>>> Just wondering. >>>>> >>>>> Rob >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *----- Original Message -----* >>>>> *From:* Michael Ridland [mailto:rid...@gmail.com] >>>>> *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com >>>>> *Sent:* Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:38:49 +1000 >>>>> *Subject:* Future of .NET >>>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> It's clear that in the Start-up and Web communities the choice for >>>>> development platforms is not .NET. >>>>> >>>>> Does this mean eventually this will filter up? I'm wondering what this >>>>> means for the future of .NET? >>>>> >>>>> I once had a developer say .NET is the new COBOL. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
