I've been using c# since beta and I love it but agree that IIS is a cluster fuck, and working with msbuild is no picnic, and supporting windows services is maca

I've been using c# since beta and I love it but agree that IIS is a cluster fuck, and working with msbuild is no picnic, and supporting windows services is macabre at best. There are efforts to ease the pain with projects such as a topshelf/katana (owin) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn745865.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn745865.aspx so MS is aware that this process should be more light weight for many situations, and appears to head in the direction of node.js type hosting for times when you don't need all the IIS features.