[bayesian_horse]

Well, I would never choose .NET if I had any choice. It's much too verbose and is dominated in terms of productivity by many other frameworks/ecosystems. Some people seem to enjoy it, and more power to them, but if I ask, they often haven't done much of anything else.

[lostmsu]

Hm, the reason I am still in .NET is that whenever I try to move to something else, the productivity suffers immeasurably:

- Most of the stuff outside of .NET, Java pair suffers from lack of refactoring tools, and are therefore unsuitable for sufficiently large projects. The exceptions are TypeScript (which is OKish, but lacks performance) and Go (which is tailored for web dev and has a few major drawbacks as programming language).

- Most non-dynamic languages apart from .NET, Java, and C++ have very limited debuggers.