I started using .NET in late 2001. I'd done a few years at startups that were using Java and doing all kinds of architecture astronautics involving JavaBeans and great big complicated ways to access config files while ignoring any really hard customer-facing problems. The tools sucked really hard, and I remember it was difficult to find an IDE that didn't simply crash when you fed it 50K lines of Java to debug. Browser plugins OMFG. Working in Java wasn't a whole lot of fun.
Anyway, I joined a new company, started using C#, and one sunny afternoon about three months into my first real project I remember thinking to myself, quite clearly, "Oh thank God, the nightmare is over."
I did some Android work a few years ago, and all the bad stuff came flooding back: The fallen towers of abstraction degenerated into a sea of flag bits. The hideously complicated build and packaging systems. I haven't written any C# in five years or so, so maybe it's just as horrible now (and I've glossed over bad things like DLL hell and the global compilation pre-caching nonsense), but I sure don't enjoy anything based on Java.
Anyway, I joined a new company, started using C#, and one sunny afternoon about three months into my first real project I remember thinking to myself, quite clearly, "Oh thank God, the nightmare is over."
I did some Android work a few years ago, and all the bad stuff came flooding back: The fallen towers of abstraction degenerated into a sea of flag bits. The hideously complicated build and packaging systems. I haven't written any C# in five years or so, so maybe it's just as horrible now (and I've glossed over bad things like DLL hell and the global compilation pre-caching nonsense), but I sure don't enjoy anything based on Java.