Re: Microsoft shot itslef in the foot with the droppong of ASP.NET WebForms
Constantly churning the development environments as Microsoft has been doing since 2010 is causing mayhem and frustration in the MS Development Communities. And this is also contributing to developer burnout
It was the major factor in me starting the retirement process last year. I'd shouted and sworn at VS for crashing/hanging/*insert random stupid IDE behaviour here* for just one time too many and the idea of having to learn yet another UI framework - and an unfinished pile of crap at that - was just too much. Xamarin was quirky and the development experience targeting iOS incredibly painful but MAUI wasn't even complete and MS wanted us to move to that?
I had been reporting VS bugs to the MS team for several years and almost nothing was ever done about them. They just continued to add more and more features to the already bloated and unstable IDE.
So I got the retirement parachute ready. Then my employer wanted the dev team back in the office for two days a week and I pulled the cord.
Best decision I have made in a long time. Screw VS. Screw MS.
Andrue Cope. Software developer: 1982 - 2023.
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