Agreed about the Java ecosystem. Years ago I worked on a text indexing and searching application. All the interesting stuff was in Java and if you were lucky,

Agreed about the Java ecosystem. Years ago I worked on a text indexing and searching application. All the interesting stuff was in Java and if you were lucky, there was some outdated and buggy .NET port. C# is a very good language but if I had to star5 sei thing from scratch i would probably choose the Java world just because of the availability of libraries. .NET could get a huge boost if there was an ability to use Java libraries. There was KVM.NET but that looks pretty dead.