I agree with all the above points, and like to add a few more. There's incredibly good aspects to .NET, and it was better in the past than it is now relative t

I agree with all the above points, and like to add a few more. There's incredibly good aspects to .NET, and it was better in the past than it is now relative to the competition.. However it's been a victim of it's own success, both in attracted a lot of recent mediocre talent due to it's success, and in growing more complex in it's 15 year lifespan so far. The platform complexity has increased significantly with PCLs, .NET Core, and moving from a dependable 18 month release cycle to a fragmented multi-channel release cycle.. ostensibly to keep up with the competition, but really just getting trapped into a classic prisoners dilemma of a race to the bottom of fragmentation and dependency hell. I think they should have left that particular trick to the Javascript framework of the month .. Another issue that holds .NET back is licensing, startups don't want to worry about the licensing in case they scale. .NET core is improving this though and there is a huge amount of open source .NET code available. Despite these drawbacks it's still an awesome platform, with possibly the best general purpose language available in C#. But it's not cool, and yes a lot of that is cargo cult based misunderstanding of it's abilities.