It's the best modern language overall (if you count everything: IDE, APIs, language design, cross-platform capability, capital backing, reach, approachability).

It's the best modern language overall (if you count everything: IDE, APIs, language design, cross-platform capability, capital backing, reach, approachability). Also XNA is reborn as MonoGame. Microsoft wants to decouple from it's APIs and tools by offloading to OSS and third party (Unity3d).