What I want to know is: ignoring the vendor lock-in part (and yes, that's huge) and the very Microsofty way that you have to do everything once you go that rout

What I want to know is: ignoring the vendor lock-in part (and yes, that's huge) and the very Microsofty way that you have to do everything once you go that route, how does C# factor into the discussion? The CLR is clearly inspired by the JVM, and the latest iterations of the C# language itself have added a lot of syntax to achieve various dynamic techniques. Yet, sometimes, I feel like I'd be better off with the Java platform and a dynamic JVM language.