[drclau]

> Microsoft has a large team dedicated towards improving these languages constantly

… and the people working on these projects need to deliver, else their performance review won’t be good, and their financial rewards (merit increase, bonus, refresher) will be low. And here we are.

Edit: I realize I’m repeating what you said too, but I wanted to make it more clear what’s going on.

[neonsunset]

From what I've been told, all the nice bonuses and career opportunities are in Azure and other, more business-centric areas. You go to DevDiv to work on Roslyn (C#) or .NET itself because you can do so and care about either or both first and foremost.