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Heck, still is. C# is a nice, pragmatic, practical language, and the VS/Resharper combination can't be beat anywhere, period. I love how lazy it lets me be.

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Funny enough, I developed libraries mostly, in both for server use (nhibernate/castle), and for client side use (windows phone), and i can say pretty confidently that development environment for windows phone 8 was far superior to what android had, too. Android was a platform for years while wp8 was really new.

Microsoft knows how to create developer tools, and languages.

It's an ugly secret that WP in many regards was the best platform out there. If it was about 90's desktop operating systems it would be BeOS out of the options Windows 98, MacOS 8 or BeOS.

But it was not only late to market but also Microsoft's PHB's managed it pretty ugly.

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