I don't think its just that. Its impossible to design a "trully general" intermediate programming language so what ended up happening is that the CLR was a perf

I don't think its just that. Its impossible to design a "trully general" intermediate programming language so what ended up happening is that the CLR was a perfect fit for C# and a not-so-perfect fit for everything else. At least thats what I've been told by my programming languages professor.