Completely agree, except that MS was so crazy hostile to OSS that they scared off all the serious guys a decade ago. I wish them the best. The CLR has some compelling features that make it objectively better than JVM on so many levels.

But the lack of ecosystem is killing them. And has been forever. The new MS CEO is great in my mind but it will take many years to turn the ship around. Devs don't forget.

Best example I can think of (was a C# guy for years). Resharper has been around forever. But it costs a lot. This is par the course for C#. I can get the same thing in Java by pulling in a few linters with Maven, and it's all free. Because MS scared away everyone that was afraid of licensing fees (ie most academics, the sharpest devs out there), there's nothing comparable.

Same with C# port of Quartz and so many others. They killed off the real rockstars among us that create the majority of libraries that everyone else uses.

Can it be fixed? I hope so. The CLR is great and Oracle sucks. But for now there's a good reason Java is dominant