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Re: Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

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Post by bootload »

robconery wrote: post #13
phatboyslim wrote: post #3

For anyone curious about any background on Phil Haack. Here are his notable accomplishments. - MS Lead on ASP.net MVC framework vers. 1 through 3 (current) - Lead on the NuGet package manager framework for Visual Studio - This Developer's Life Podcast with Scott Hanselman

Phil also invented C#, the Faux Hawk, and Daft Punk

"... Phil also invented C# ..."

Anders Hejlsberg is credited as being the principal designer & architect of C# at Microsoft [0] and I don't see this listed on Phil Haacks resume. [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg#At_Microsoft

[1] http://haacked.com/Docs/PhillipHaack_Resume.html

Re: Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

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Post by traskjd »

jroseattle wrote: post #9

Phil did a great job both before and after his MS career. He will do well at GitHub as well. He's one of the good guys in the C# world, and both GitHub and Microsoft will benefit from this.

I'm sure you mean both before and during his MS career. His post MS career is about 12 hours old :-)

But I'm sure he'll do well with it.

Re: Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

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Post by redstripe »

When I went looking for a git win32 binaries a while ago the attitude was basically "lolz get a mac/linux box". Which is why I use hg instead of git.

It's great to see an open source community, that isn't engulfed in the sanfrancisco linux/mac mono culture bubble, reaching out to Win developers for the benfit of everyone.

Re: Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

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Post by HnNoPassMailer »

TomOfTTB wrote: post #20

This is a good thing for Microsoft. Microsoft needs to become more outwardly focused and influential softies leaving the fold and pushing from the outside will do that. Right now the two good things Microsoft has going for it is MVC and C#. Both of which were inspired or heavily influenced by outside forces (MVC by Castle and C# 4 was influenced heavily by Python). Phil Haack moving to Github will hopefully push Micr…

Personally I find C# to be very nice to work with. It has a lot of static and dynamic goodness, and the .NET libraries provide a lot of stuff to create high quality code.

However, software patents and closed sourceness put me off and drove me to dart and Java. Too bad Microsoft is becoming a patent troll. You may have the coolest stuff, but if you start to sue me/my clients (indirectly) it's over soon.

Re: Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

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Post by runjake »

TomOfTTB wrote: post #20

This is a good thing for Microsoft. Microsoft needs to become more outwardly focused and influential softies leaving the fold and pushing from the outside will do that. Right now the two good things Microsoft has going for it is MVC and C#. Both of which were inspired or heavily influenced by outside forces (MVC by Castle and C# 4 was influenced heavily by Python). Phil Haack moving to Github will hopefully push Micr…

> All this in turn MIGHT give Microsoft a chance at becoming relevant again in the developer space (and please don't say "a lot of people use Microsoft" because I'm one of those people and I know a lot of those people and they're all looking at their future with worried eyes)

If you read the blog post of this very submission, it cites C# as #4 and climbing on the TIOBE language index. I know and work with a bunch of .NET developers, also, and I can't name one that's looking at the future with worried eyes.

In what way are they irrelevant in the developer space?

In my particular case, I tend to shy away from Microsoft development because the stack isn't really free, top to bottom and it seemed like MS was following trends instead of leading them (MVC was an obvious response and I see a lot of Railisms in it).

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