- Decent command-line tooling
- Doesn't force you into an IDE vertical unless you want to
I'm not saying that the points above aren't true exactly, but surely they are less true for .NET than they are for just about any other mainstream development stack?
Before I was forced to try it, if you had asked me whether having a "normal" development experience using .NET was possible I would have said "no way". After being forced to do it I was pleasantly surprised to see that it didn't feel particularly different to most other compiled languages that I've used. YMMV.