I’ve been trying not to write this blog post for months, rage-quitting .NET being as it is almost a running joke in the web development community. I hope this isn’t a rage-quit. The fact is that today I can no longer reason away my misgivings about the situation in which I’ve found myself. Today I say goodbye to .NET.

I’ve met a number of awesome people during this journey, many of them extraordinarily talented engineers and forward-thinking, creative, and intelligent people. I am very glad to have had to opportunity to work with and learn from you. Keep working to improve your tools, whatever they may be.

I’ll spare this post my conspiracy theories. The bottom line is that .NET is not a technology that anyone uses for Getting Shit Done in my world. For me it was a toy. I mastered a lot of advanced topics whilst playing with .NET. But I have to be honest with myself: the .NET platform doesn’t pay me, and it no longer aligns with my personal creative goals. I would be a fool to spend another minute working with it.

I’ve seen how mixing up personnel in any project or organization can be a very positive thing, and I hope that my departure benefits the projects with which I was involved. Best of luck to everyone!