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Agree with all. In fact features of C# are very close to what Scala offers. .NET performance improvement in last couple years is impressive enough for me to stop recommending any interpreted language based frameworks to my clients.

.NET/C# + cloud all the way.

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For me, C# still lacks a bootstrap project like Rails to boost the team productivity. I always have the feeling that the ruby/python teams are more productive cause they have Rails/Django.

Which code would you rather refactor in 5 years? Make no assumptions about willingness to unit test.

C# no doubt. But sometimes you just want to put some idea online, fast, a MVP for example. In this case, C# is more burocratic than Ruby/Python.

Isn't those called ASP.NET MVC or WebApi or Nancy or ServiceStack or ...? I think you have a lot of options - in fact you might have 1 or two too many in the .NET world.

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