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Justin Angel confuses percentages with hard numbers. Because of mobile device development, more development jobs overall exist. C# now holds a smaller percentage of software development jobs, but its demand hasn't gone down.
Also, of the "obsolete" technologies he listed, only Silverlight is truly losing support. Furthermore, all ecosystems over time receive new frameworks, libraries, and API's to adjust to newer trends in software development (not just the .NET ecosystem); you can't criticize .NET for coming out with new API's all the time without also criticizing all development platforms.
And the Java/Android ecosystem he moved to has its own problems (and its own host of doomsday prophets, too).
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jesarg wrote: Justin Angel confuses percentages with hard numbers
Maybe he works with economy? 
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Full respect for anyone, but that looks like the "money" perspective of the programming jobs.
I develop for solving problems: phones aren't solving me too much, but desktops still hold the (mandatory) way to super-view machines and automation in general.
In my opinion, the numbers might be real but that does not imply the C#/.Net is an obsolete world. At all.
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Angel left .NET, but Justin took it up!
All is balanced! All is round! 
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Leaving C#/.NET for Java/Android? Seriously? And why is every other Angel asking for the death of .NET? I don't see it dying anytime soon.
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Microsoft's rather complicated Windows 10 as a service strategy is slowly coming into focus. Does 'down their throats' sound about right?
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I see ZDnet has a new page layout. In a welcome change compared to almost every other news site I've been to in the last year that's done the same; they managed to do so without adding a single div of crap to force me to fire up ye old content blocker to fix things. In an even bigger surprise I had no real complaints visiting the site using a browser that didn't filter anything at all. 
Near instant page load.
No crap floating on top of the article.
No crap that pops up when you mouse over random words while scrolling.
No crap jammed in the middle of an article to try and get the readers attention by interrupting them. (Yes Mr. Advertiser, this will get my attention. No, that's not a good thing for you.)
News site page designers, this is how you do it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Contract work is becoming the new normal. On the bright side, you can put 'CEO, Me Inc' on your business cards
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It's a sad thing that it is becoming the new normal and I wonder that next to no one is upset about it and everybody just goes with it because the only advantages are hands-down on the side of the contractor: No layoff protection (depending on where you live), often combined with fictious self-employment to circumvent social security payments... just to name a few, I'm not even starting to talk about the modern slavery called time-work. It's a simple lie that (young) people entering the workforce today value flexibility and autonomy over social security and a safe job. The idea of life long employment no longer applies? Please, why, exactly? What's wrong with it? How to you expect people to start and raise family under such uncertain job conditions?
Companies/employers have to be aware that they have a social responsibility. At least they had once. It seems like all they care for now is profit margins and their own salaries.
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So, military will become contractors? Farmers will only work on demand?
Employment is not ending; the amount of work is shrinking, again. Something that happened before.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There is no other ritual that is as thoroughly dehumanizing, utterly useless, tediously time-consuming, here's-a-banana-dance-monkey-dance freak-show of zero predictive value, as the supreme haze-fest that goes by the name Silicon Valley Casting Couch. How about FizzBuzz instead? (Caution: uses strong language)
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One does not simply invert a binary tree.
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Those moments between Wi-Fi connect and VPN launch can give away a lot. "Security is an illusion"
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Many of us are very likely familiar with "browser toolbars," which reside below the browser's address bar, and aims to provide "extra functionality" on our internet browsing experience. Good thing we're all in agreement then
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 Yeah!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I gather Oracle are now replacing their Java download with Yahoo! toolbar! 
Kevin
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Back in November, after a rocky landing on a comet, the Philae lander went into a deep hibernation. Now, months later, the spacecraft has finally woken up, according to the European Space Agency. "Good morning starshine. The earth says hello"
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This is great news. I feared the lander was lost.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sort of another successful failure 
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The next version, Philea II, will come back quicker.
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Since WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) was introduced by Microsoft in 2006 as part of the .NET framework, the platform has been on the rise in popularity among Windows developers. Don't go into the (Silver) light
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Only 10%? So Visual Studio is about 90% useless? 
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