What are your programming hot takes?

Someone didn’t own a Zune and it shows.

Even as someone who has disliked MS since the mid-90s, I am willing to admit they have made some good products. The Intellimouse 2.0 was one of the best mice I've ever used. It was my main mouse for something like a decade, and even now, almost 25 years later, it still works as a backup mouse when I need it for something in my homelab.

People won't believe me that windows is an absoloute dumpster fire, sure it works most of the time but when it doesn't it quickly becomes apparent how much the whole thing is creaking edifice built atop pretty much every past version of itself. I could do a whole rant.

typescript? i know its a bandaid on a severed leg at this point but still

Visual studio has been the best IDE for a long time, and OneNote is still the best note taking application.

Excel is a very nice product, and I really enjoy AoE2. Even if it now has a quite large tech debt with HD the release version was super stable and a leap forward compared to its contemporaries.

The first Xbox was also a very good product.

Excel

This is a bit too extreme. I guess I'd say it's more like... they do sometimes make something good, and then make it awkward to use outside of Windows/attach other arbitrary nonsense restrictions etc.

One Note. I have yet to see anything from anyone come close. Works with all of my devices, allows me to use a stylus for designs on an infinite graph paper canvas, and damned good at note taking.

I like .NET, Visual Studio Code, and SQL Server. The rest is garbage.