this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
734 points (96.8% liked)
Programmer Humor
33796 readers
1853 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
- If the mod doesn't find it funny, you're banned. Ha-ha!... For real: do not use the community for "statements". There are other places for such content. Keep it chill and funny.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
.Net has been chugging along quite nicely for decades now.
And ~~COBAL~~ COBOL just won't die.
It better not. I've invested all my money in it.
COBOL*
Stupid phone
.NET is the single best thing Microsoft makes.
It’s fast, multi platform (all mine runs in Linux containers), and the developer tools are pretty good too.
I really HATE that Microsoft made it, but I love C# and .NET.
MAUI/.NET is nice
I blame Microsoft for that
Yeah microsoft has an amazing record! 100000% secure!!!! lmao.
Last place I worked at that ~~abused~~ used .Net was serving an angular web app to interface with a c++ BE using soap.
Now that sounds sane, until they made their own C++ to CSS transpiler to be able define the ui in back end code. Like angular written in c++ translated through .Net.
Through no fault of .Net I just can't get past those flashbacks.
To be fair that's only like top 5 most fucked up code I saw there.
As backend code, yes. As a web (web, not api. As an api platform they're great) platform... No.
Asp.net and mvc were imo a disaster, silverlight was... Oof.
Then there is maui which could have done it using blazor but just... Didnt.
... And then there is blazor itself. Though blazor is imo the best of all the web platforms they had, and i like it, it still has very rough edges and is not gonna replace javascript any time soon.
Hell, microsoft cant even decently support their own web ui platform ( fluentui ) because their backbone ( webcomponents ) is completely broke ( or did v3 FINALLY release? ). There are other blazor frameworks but they all seem to not take full advantage of blazor and its disgusting.
What about modern ASP.NET? It feels pretty good these days honestly. I even really like the newer minimal API features
As i said, the api stuff of asp.net is very nice and straight to the point. The only bad thing ive got to note there is the openapi spec implementation they introduced in .net 10 is just terrible but itll improve quickly, its just early in its implementation ( like how system.text.json was )
Oh whoops, I just can't read