Well, common lisp and some schemes and prolog tend to get a good deal of praise here, even if their commercial utilization is lower. OCaml, F# and Clojure tend

Well, common lisp and some schemes and prolog tend to get a good deal of praise here, even if their commercial utilization is lower. OCaml, F# and Clojure tend to get a good deal of favorable comments as well. I suspect it is less about cargo culting, and more about two separate things: First, the tooling for C# and really anything dotnet has been awful on any OS other than Windows until fairly recently. Windows is (to be blunt) a very unpopular OS in every development community that isn't dotnet. Second, anthing enterprise is worth taking with a skeptical grain of salt; "enterprise" typically gets chosen for commercial support contracts, vendor lock-in, or astronaut architects over-engineering everything to fit best practices from 20 years ago. Saying big businesses run on it is a virtue is akin to saying that Oracle software is amazing or that WordPress engineering is amazing because so many websites run on it. Popularity and quality are entirely orthogonal. I suppose there is probably another reason, which is the cluster fuck that has been the naming and churn of dot net versions for several years. ASP.NET, then core, then the core suffix got dropped at version 5, even though not everything was cross platform... So much pointless confusion.