It's been a lot better for a long time. There -are- still a couple sore points, PDF comes to mind. But there are at least a couple different good projects out

It's been a lot better for a long time. There -are- still a couple sore points, PDF comes to mind. But there are at least a couple different good projects out there for working with Excel at this point. Bigger problem is a larger portion of C# developers and their managers are frightened of shifting away from the Microsoft blessed stack. That's what creates this chicken-egg situation where good projects don't have enough community behind them because there aren't enough people using them. GC in C# isn't perfect but works fairly well if you understand it. There's plenty of ways to write minimal or zero-allocation code and it's gotten a lot easier with the newer Span types. Monitoring though... yeah The first time I learned about Blackbox and the like I got a bit jealous :)