Wow, I can’t believe I still enjoy writing .NET apps on Windows when it’s this bad. How naive of me… Maybe I’m just old and get a kick from dumbed-down languages (btw I turned 100011 (0×23) yesterday; yay me! 
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May 6, 2008 at 6:24 am
Alvin Ashcraft
Happy (belated) birthday, Chris!
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August 6, 2010 at 1:14 pm
HHick123
It is crap.
Borland Delphi (VCL/CLX) i.e. was much better on Windows and Linux platform.
But it’s not always the best technology that wins.
Monopoly strategies and customer’s expectations play an important role, I think.
February 16, 2012 at 8:47 pm
bayazet
Agree. Crap it is. I spent today ample amount of time trying to make some ASP.NET code to work. No avail! I had to go IIS Manager multiple times and click-click-click (I really missed apache’s http.conf and tomcat’s server.xml at that point). Then it was stumbling on web.config – could not digest codeSubDirectories tags. Then it could not compile cs files because it could not find assemblies in GAC. It was not mine code. I just had to make it work to apply some fixes. So as java guy I thought I can use console and call compiler to compile. No such luck! My compile line was a mile long because I had to list every possible DLL the application needed to run (in java I would just include jar files in classpath and would be done with this), then it turned out that I do need to install “assemblies” ( dlls ) and get their unique id’s (some IDE generated crap). So in order to make it work I would have to install visual studio ( more than gigabyte of crap) to assemble this application from pieces. No wonder many M$ addicted developers cannot do anything without IDE. It’s just created that way to make idiots out of people.
February 16, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Chris Cavanagh
bayazet – Sounds like you had a fun day! I’d be equally lost with java and command lines
I usually draw the line at a few git commands as my memory can’t fit anything else 