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Can anyone provide a short, non-marketing-bullshit description of what this steaming pile of shit really is?  Is there ANY reason that a competent developer would ever use it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

>>8
C/C++
0/10

Does it even support C/C++?
It has an usable FFI and it also supports native code (see: managed c++) and some other things. Not really portable, for obvious reasons.