It's getting better a bit since 2-3 years ago but before that Microsoft was always stuck in the 90's style of development while other platforms have moved forward significantly.

Nuget is a late attempt to follow Maven and yet still behind.

EntityFramework came in late and I heard ppl moaned.

No Docker...

Chocolatey came in late.

So yeah... Says the parent thread and me.

That is still light years ahead of coding with vi/emacs in UNIX SYSTEM V style, like many here still seem to do.

I only do it when I am left without any other choice, maybe growing up with Amiga/Smalltalk/Oberon GUIs has spoiled me.

Yeah, Microsoft's ORM solutions are pretty horrible but then... so is NHibernate. But NHibernate was better and five years earlier, so it was really hard to see why Microsoft even bothered with EF.

Only ORM I use is the wonderful Dapper.NET.

You've heard of IntelliJ, right?

Me yes, but the bash/vi/emacs guys not.