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.

Of course all of the things mentioned in >>15 are possible without VMs.  After all, the VM was built without a VM.  It's an approach to solving a problem in a different way that works well for certain applications and not so well for other applications.  Like *every* designed solution.

Stating that VMs are universally stupid is just as moronic as stating that VMs are universally good.  They're a single solution used to address certain problems that could be addressed in any number of other ways as well.

VMs don't work for your particular problem space?  Great!  Don't use them.  Don't be the asshat who thinks that his own problem space is the only problem space in the world that matters, though.  The fact remains that there are lots of applications where VMs *do* prove to be a useful solution technique.