[thegenius2000]

Honestly comments like these further discredit the Windows-development-community in my view.

First, a quick rant. You talk about "great tooling," and by this (I fear) you mean Visual Studio? Good libraries, by this you mean things like System.Foo.Bar.BazQux()? A "decent core language," by that you mean a pretty blatant knock-off of Java (which is an overly-bloated language in its own right)? And by "can do OOP" you mean must do, since the language forces you to embrace the paradigm? "Functional?" Without real first-class functions: without closures?

Generics? Fair point. Golang is lacking in that regard, at least for now.

But let me address the key misconception in your comment. You mention "sexiness," which in your mind is some sort of pointless quality. Here's what you're missing: biologically, we interpret sexiness as an indication of fertility. Good tools and languages aren't good because they're sexy, they're sexy because they're good. The ability to perceive, expect and demand this sexiness from tools is nothing more than a veiled desire to work in the most effective possible way. That's why people love Unix and hate Windows. That's why they leave languages like Java, C#, and C++ for Python and Go; and some (who I admire) use Haskell. It's not about elitism, the elitism is merely a by-product: the fundamental issue here is greediness, and the strength of one's desire to be as efficient as possible.

[douche]

Did OOP kill your father, kick your dog, and sleep with your wife? If you stick your fingers in your ears and sing "module! module! module!" as you do it, you could probably live with the fact that C# coerces you into putting your static functions in a class. Since 2007 there have been LINQ, lambdas, closures, and a whole host of functional features added to the language.

With regard to sexiness, as an old Quebecois logging foreman once told me, "Sometimes you want the supermodel wife, and sometimes you want the one who can carry the canoe." If you can get both, great, but I got a lot of canoes to carry.

> Honestly comments like these further discredit the Windows-development-community in my view.

I'm just an asshole with an opinion on the internet, and I seem to have misplaced my official Windows-development-community membership card...

[dang]

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

Programming language flamewars are bad for this site. They're tornados of tedium that pick up entire threads and deposit them miles away in an intellectual desert. Please let's keep them off HN.