C# appreciation thread

How many of you guys prefer coding in C#? I feel that C# is the best language for quickly coding programs for windows, and with managed directx there's tons of awesome stuff you can do. I just started my computer-education this autumn, and we're being forced to make stuff in java. Java and C# are pretty much identical, only C# has more functionality (WHY doesn't java have properties? X| ), has the infitely superior development environment ('cause remembering the syntax of your programming language is SO last paradigm), and, in my experience, runs a good deal faster than java.

Not if it's making things work faster and be equally as portable.

Except that GJC loses out to modern JITs pretty badly, or at least it did a year ago. Maybe they've improved it since then. On the other hand, it's probably faster than interpreted mode, since there are no JITs for some architectures.

The main benefit to GJC isn't speed. It's memory.