I find it hard to believe just because C# and F# are the only first-class languages on Windows. Iron Ruby is pretty good now, but that took years to get it clo

I find it hard to believe just because C# and F# are the only first-class languages on Windows. Iron Ruby is pretty good now, but that took years to get it close to Ruby MRI. The same can be said for other languages. Newer run-times like node.js are very hard to get set up in Windows (even if you use cygwin). Pretty much any new trendy language goes to Linux first (unless Microsoft is the creator). As long a Windows has market share it will have programmers, and most of those programmers are going to use .NET.