[knightni]

C# is an improvement in this regard - it at least gives you structs for when you need to store related data together without any greater overhead than you'd have in C.

Unfortunately unless you're on windows it's not that fast compared to Java.

[pjmlp]

I still hope that Microsoft will eventually make Bartok part of the standard .NET tooling and with that a proper native implementation for C#.

Actually they are doing something like that already with MDIL in WP8.