I mean at this point I have truly no idea what I'm talking about. But I would always bet on Azure against Visual Studio in a fight. The earning potential for Azure is simply far, far higher than for Visual Studio. AWS has shown that the cloud is a recipe for printing money, and I trust Microsoft to follow the money.
Yes. And IMHO Azure wins. But there are managers, goals and compromises. IMHO this was a compromise. The Azure division is interested in a universal available runtime. The tooling group provides a free editor but had goals of earning VS licenses.
I can only guess but I think Big Scott, lesser Scott and Julia will have a meeting soon. The .NET community is at a boiling point and they should really avoid a community which takes dev productivity in their own hands. Because that is the garantueed end of visual studio.
> The .NET community is at a boiling point and they should really avoid a community which takes dev productivity in their own hands. Because that is the garantueed end of visual studio.
sounds like .NET is almost the kind of thing I'd use then, because in a world without Visual Studio, I might not be punished for choosing to use .NET but not VS
I've always thinked of MS as filled with old fashioned managers, caring only about legacy stuff and killing any good initiative MS Research came out with.
I was amazed they'd try something new like cloud. I thought they will stick to the desktop and and MS Office until someone will snatch it from their dead cold hands. But Ballmer went and Nadella came. I still think that the company has a lot of Ballmers hidden in a lot of places, waiting for the opportunity to pull the breaks if they sniff that something interesting might happen.
