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Erm. StackOverflow was built by folk who used C# heavily, and cargo-culting is amazingly prevalent on both the C# and Java "traditional IT" communities, so _of course_ StackOverflow is biased towards those runtimes...

And yet the os group at ms is famous for their naked derision of the .net Framework.

Hum .Net is their own dog food .. did you mean Android/iOS? :-D

What I mean was that M$ have competing offer to Android/iOS but it is not getting the upper hand even within their own organization.

Because of political wars that lead the .NET team to base the Framework on the CLR instead of the COM+ Runtime that was being prototyped.

Why do you think that WinRT is basically the return of .NET the Ext-VOS project origins, but with .NET metadata instead of COM type libraries?

.NET Native is what Ext-VOS was going to be, if it wasn't for the decision to create the CLR instead.

Python isn't nearly at the level of C++ or Java there, at least not any more.