[peterashford]

.NET is kind of a cul-de-sac. There's usually only one way to do things and often I don't like the way they choose to do things. Getting some web services going with Visual Studio and I give up trying to get the WSDL->proxy generation working and just do it by hand. The community is filled with people all saying you can't do it that way, you have to use the tool.

It all seems very narrow, very closed quite facist really.

I prefer a more open, more fertile ecosystem. C, C++, Java, Clojure all compare quite favourably in this regard.

I certainly don't hate C# the language. But I don't like the tooling (VS, VS or.... VS) or the community - which don't seem to come up with their own solutions often enough for me. And face it, .NET is only a first class citizen on Windows.