<story><title>Stack Exchange&apos;s monitoring system is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/opserver/Opserver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevepotter</author><text>The anti .net kneejerk reactions on HN really disturbs me.  You spend all day on stackoverflow then blindly bash their tech stack.  Developing, deploying, and hosting .net apps is just fine.  Many brilliant people choose .net and are plenty happy with it.  Maybe rather than jumping to conclusions, you could give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Stack Overflow (which I avoid as much as I can fwiw) is not a strong argument for the .net stack given the people behind it have moved to a different stack for their next project (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.codinghorror.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;why-ruby.html&lt;/a&gt;). That&amp;#x27;s not an isolated incident.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve several friends working in that stack. While many defend it as the correct decision at the time (and I don&amp;#x27;t disagree with that), all would rather be using something else now.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stack Exchange&apos;s monitoring system is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/opserver/Opserver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevepotter</author><text>The anti .net kneejerk reactions on HN really disturbs me.  You spend all day on stackoverflow then blindly bash their tech stack.  Developing, deploying, and hosting .net apps is just fine.  Many brilliant people choose .net and are plenty happy with it.  Maybe rather than jumping to conclusions, you could give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurounijones</author><text>What anti .net kneejerk? At time of this comment there are 28 comments, only 2 of which are anti .net &amp;#x2F; Microsoft (with no replies) and they are already well on their way to being downvoted into oblivion.</text></comment>