[scaramanga]

"Haters" probably do realise that.

Personally, I just don't see anything interesting that .NET offers. In fact, I consider languages which target virtual machines to be a failed experiment of a bygone age.

The two exemplars, Java and .NET have been thrust upon developer communities by multi-million dollar marketing efforts. And those marketing efforts have not been tailored towards my specific demographic. So they've been pretty easy to ignore.

So it's not a matter of being anti-.NET or Java or whatever. It's just that they're about as relevant to me as Barbie-themed toilet paper - superfluous and not marketed towards my demographic.