My group just hired our first .NET dev in years after many interviews.
Maybe they’re all working for the big banks. Or maybe all the .NET engineers realized they’re underpaid and have learned other technologies. My own experience is that outside of Azure, .NET has become extremely painful. FWIW, modern .NET and Visual Studio (anywhere other than ASP) is deserving of hazard pay, at the very least to compensate for the mental health cost of Visual Studio’s constant gaslighting.
I love my manager and team, but pretty soon I’m going to be telling them that I’m leaving, because .NET (on desktop and mobile) has given me 5+ years of very good reasons to hate it.
Maybe they’re all working for the big banks. Or maybe all the .NET engineers realized they’re underpaid and have learned other technologies. My own experience is that outside of Azure, .NET has become extremely painful. FWIW, modern .NET and Visual Studio (anywhere other than ASP) is deserving of hazard pay, at the very least to compensate for the mental health cost of Visual Studio’s constant gaslighting.
I love my manager and team, but pretty soon I’m going to be telling them that I’m leaving, because .NET (on desktop and mobile) has given me 5+ years of very good reasons to hate it.