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The Stack Nobody Picks Might Be the One That Picks You

Dhruv Jani on September 01, 2026

Nobody chooses .NET. Not as a student, at least. You hear "backend" and the room splits into Spring Boot and Django camps — maybe Express if someo...
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Dhruv Jani

What’s the “unpopular” tech choice that ended up working out surprisingly well for you?

For me, it was .NET — partly because fewer people around me were choosing it, and partly because C# turned out to be way better than I expected. 😂

Curious to hear what you picked when you decided to go against the crowd. 👇

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Again sloan here!

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Lemme make it easier for ya: V.A.L.I.D.

Give it a go, if you wanna try Blazor, I built it to replace CSLA, write all the boilerplate for me, wire everything properly, proper unit tests, debug UI issues and properly scope rules. Also not that tough to wrap your head around, imo easier than setting up a blazor app normally.

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Dhruv Jani

I didn't get it sir/ma'am, is this promotional or you just want me to go through repo cause I do know blazor?

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UnitBuilds

Meant for you to give it a try and see if you like it. I wrote it to make creating and maintaining a blazor app easier, while also fixing Blazor's stupid VDOM issues.

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Dhruv Jani

Cool, sure I'd give it a try and probably star it for now and then go through it, cause I gotta revise blazor a bit😅. Haven't used it since my internship.🫠

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UnitBuilds

Would really appreciate it! Hope you like it, it was designed to do all the mundane tasks for you (everything where mistakes happen), so you can focus on what matters (data structure and UI design).

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Dhruv Jani

Sure I will, just starred it😅. But since you're a senior dev, I'd like to know your opinion about the theme of the post. What was your first stack or maybe which project that you didn't knew got you an opportunity you wanted? I ask it to everyone, cause I get a bit info before I start my fresher job next year.

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Yug Vasava

Wow bro, you clearly find good post ideas and all the posts in this series have a clearly good theme, But I thought this series was about Dev.to. Regardless, Good post.👍️

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Dhruv Jani

Well, the "DEV" refers to dev.to and DEV life both😉. Thanks for reading.

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Yug Vasava

And I forgot, we did this together. But still .NET is not my stack like you😂

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Dhruv Jani

Well, It worked out for me so I'm not gonna say anything bad🤣.

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Yug Vasava

You should not!! Also, I liked that your analogy of C# is different. No wonder you chose .NET role and it had just 4 guys shortlisted in the technical round.

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Dhruv Jani

Don't spill everything bro🤫. I wanna write a new post about the current interview process too. But you're right .NET had less candidates cause more were in AI-ML, DEVops roles. 😅

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

This post is a banger 🔥 I use C++ with Unreal Engine for 3D game dev too, so this was right up my alley lol :)

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Dhruv Jani

That's great. I actually wanted to start dev career with animation or game dev but explored a lot and went it saying It's not for me🤞.

And thanks for the complement. It really feels good when people really share their experience. 😅

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Yeah, that’s actually a good point. Exploring different things before fully committing to one path is always better. At least you got some clarity on what you don’t wanna do, and honestly, that matters too. 😃
I’m kinda the same tho. I’m not really into the designing side of game development, even though people often tell me I’m pretty good at it. 😅 But I’m way more interested in programming, so if I ever go into game dev, I’d definitely prefer the programming side of it.
And haha, I’m glad you liked what I said. I genuinely enjoy hearing about people’s experiences too. You can learn a lot from someone else’s journey. 🤝🏻 Thanks 🙏🏻

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Dhruv Jani

Thanks for kind words.
TBH I spent my entire 10th grade when we had covid in figuring out how to animate, cause I had a lot of great ideas, even wrote a script but then I got to know about Blendor, Maya and definitely knew from then that I can't do this😅.
So, I went with CS only.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

Haha, yeah, it does seem hard at first, but you slowly get the hang of it. I chose CS too. Btw, what percentage did you get in 10th? Random question lol xD

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Dhruv Jani

Well, TBH its not that like crazy, it was 94.16% in GSEB but since covid was there, the exams didn't happen and 50% marks were considered from 9th and 25% from prelims, which only 3-4 of all schools in my city took offline and mine was 1 of it. My dad was really happy on the result day. Unlike me, cause it really doesn't matter.😅