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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

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151 points ArcHound | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 20:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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bob1029 ◴[25 Jun 25 21:41 UTC] No.44382065[source]▶
The trick with Microsoft is to very carefully separate the good parts from the bad ones.

Labeling all of Microsoft as banned is really constraining your technology options. This is a gigantic organization with a very diverse set of people in it.

There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. There's a reason every AAA game engine depends on it in some way.

Azure and Windows are where things start to get bad with Microsoft.

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1. zdragnar ◴[26 Jun 25 07:43 UTC] No.44385139[source]▶
Setting aside the debugger, visual studio has to be the worst IDE I've used. There are so many rough edges it is astounding.

On an ancient project, among other things I've been editing JavaScript code both in js files and inline script tags in aspx files. The indentation auto-formatting appears to choose new levels of indentation using a random number generator.

You can't add a new file to the project while it is running, or even create a file through the context menu, but it can detect when the files have changed externally and recommend restarting the project.

There's a thousand little things, but the indentation auto-formatting abomination is a constant burr under my saddle.