CLR does seem much better than the JVM, but my dislike of it comes from what I see of it in the wild. Any randomly chosen JVM program in the real world has a m

CLR does seem much better than the JVM, but my dislike of it comes from what I see of it in the wild. Any randomly chosen JVM program in the real world has a much greater chance of running on my platform of choice than anything that was developed for the CLR. The JVM has a culture of writing things that turn out to actually be cross platform, the CLR does not seem to. I can count on one hand the programs written in C# that I use in Linux, and those projects have to explicitly support Linux. Compared to JVM targeting projects where the experience is typically "Linux? Well shit, I don't know. Here's the jar, try it out. Oh, it works? Great!" If I were writing a new language and had to pick one to target, from a technical perspective the CLR would seem to be the clear choice. But I don't think that is the perspective most people are coming from.