[MartinCron]

I say it's underrated because a lot of people dismiss anything out of Redmond. There's a stigma that .NET Coders are just corporate drone code monkeys who don't care about their craft. Sure, some of them are, but there are plenty of very serious programmers working in the .NET platform.

You can write good code or bad code in any language, but the (many) frameworks that promote the MVC separation of concerns tend to nudge you toward making better code.

I agree with mellery451, stay in your comfort zone to get the product out quickly. Just be sure to venture outside of your comfort zone every once in a while. If I never went outside of my comfort zone, I would still be a Perl hacker.