It's funny: I was betting on WPF at the time but it seems dead now, with only so...

nawitus · on March 10, 2014

Here's a tip: never bet on something proprietary.

jussij · on March 11, 2014

Here's my 20+ years of experience working as a contract in Australia.

In all that time I've only ever worked with proprietary tools and have never had trouble getting high paying contract work.

I would say I've done very well betting on something proprietary.

hkarthik · on March 11, 2014

Parent comment had to be qualified a bit: Never bet on anything proprietary which doesn't offer significant advantages over non-proprietary competitors.

nextw33k · on March 11, 2014

Sliverlight would be a great example of that.

gaius · on March 14, 2014

LOL. I know guys who have worked the last 20 years on Oracle, and they'll have no trouble finding work for 20 more. The same for Visual C++. Or a whole host of other things. The world isn't as simple as GNU ideology would have you believe.

roel_v · on March 11, 2014

Yeah, like that article from yesterday about the Perl6 guys doubling down because in 18 months when Perl6 was done, the speaking/writing/consulting gravy train was coming...