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> IBM has a very different model for supporting developers than Microsoft does with MSDN. Interesting comparison, because when I was teaching myself to code in
by adwww 4y ago
> IBM has a very different model for supporting developers than Microsoft does with MSDN.
Interesting comparison, because when I was teaching myself to code in the early 00s, that's how I perceived Microsoft.
MSDN was a paid subscription, and the tools you needed to write MS software were also paid.
Hence me ending up forming a career on open source software, and a generation of programmers who still turn their nose up at Microsoft languages.
- __d 4y agoExcept .. they're using VSCode, GitHub and Typescript, probably still on a Windows laptop.
- mr_toad 4y agoNone of those things were around in the early 00s.
- __d 4y agoWell, Windows was, but that's not the point. The parent comment noted that there was a generation who shunned Microsoft because of their corporate misbehavior. More recent generations of programmers have forgotten why that was, and Microsoft has, once again, successfully established a dominant position in the development ecosystem. I fully expect that position to be leveraged for profit, and that would see a new generation, 25 years later, who will never trust Microsoft again. Most things are cyclical.