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And that's a good insight. Just like I stated in the article "Believe me, you don't "just rewrite" 4 decades of COBOL; the same holds true for the .NET stack." However, when Fortune 500 companies are moving to it; the writing is on the wall.

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Believe me I have seen the writing on the wall

example 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8314517

and 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8478953

I think your piece is very much on point although I only read 50% so far I will finish it and go through the code as well. It is well written and your arguments are solid.

The only thing is I disagree on one thing for server side code I think .NET will evolve and adapt.

On the client the war is over JavaScript has won, and its given us what .NET and Java promised all those years ago; true cross platform UI/client apps.

Yes, I could see many organization adopting only the Mongo and Angular portions of this stack and leaving their API to leverage the .NET Web API; it too is RESTful.

I think they did so many things right with Web Api 2.0 and SignalR. I think there is the possibility in the future where you can take only the parts of the framework you want, maybe ASP.NET vNext.

Again in a lot of ways though those are a response to Node.js and socket.io

All of your points stand: how expensive it is, the fact that it is a bit heavy, and not homogeneous.

I still think it will evolve and will not fall behind like Java etc. but it does not hurt to hedge a bit and start learning the "MEAN" stack :-)

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