I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Microsoft was not my dream. It wasn't the company that I know it to be today, so it wasn't my goal.
The implication is that there were things you didn't like about Microsoft but that those things have changed for the better. I could be misreading what you wrote, but assuming that's how it was meant, can you elaborate on what aspects have improved in the time since you first dismissed Microsoft as a path?
Sure. Microsoft moving into the open source world was what made me really want to work there. Plus before I seen it more as backend stuff like .NET focused which it was but now there is so much more, Typescript, VSCode, GitHub, NPM, Static web apps etc and now Playwright and all these are very useful in the Frontend world and free. So they are creating great developer tools and I really like that.
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The implication is that there were things you didn't like about Microsoft but that those things have changed for the better. I could be misreading what you wrote, but assuming that's how it was meant, can you elaborate on what aspects have improved in the time since you first dismissed Microsoft as a path?
Sure. Microsoft moving into the open source world was what made me really want to work there. Plus before I seen it more as backend stuff like .NET focused which it was but now there is so much more, Typescript, VSCode, GitHub, NPM, Static web apps etc and now Playwright and all these are very useful in the Frontend world and free. So they are creating great developer tools and I really like that.