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I swapped from Linux and the JVM to windows and c# 3 years ago and ran straight into a wall. While I thought it was a cultural thing, it's mostly a platform thing and that influence the culture. Its like developing whith a straitjacket and everywhere you turn there's a lockdown. APIs and frameworks feels not thought through and chunky. The language feels like an steroids addiction. It feels good and you feel the power and you get stronger and stronger, but suddenly weird things start happening and suddenly ugly things just pop out and you loose control. And then everything's a mess and you there's no way back.

There are some things which are nice but they clearly doesn't outweigh the downsides with the platform. It feels shiny and nice at first but if you know what you could do instead of having to deal with the "Microsoft-way TM" it's downright horrible. Don't get fooled by the "new shiny" part! :)