[JanezStupar]

I was aware of this dichotomy when writing the post. And I find .NET stack much better than JVM stack.

In fact while I couldn't stomach working in Java I would be much more willing working with C#, not to mention other .NET citizens. But in general as a spectrum, the toolkits and libraries of .NET and Java share architectural and design patterns.

However the .NET stack does have built in languages (Javacript and F#) that can be used to glue together the rest of the system in a sane manner. The capability is there, however standard operating procedure is sadly still using shitload of XML's.