Yeah, interop was one of the things that .Net/C# got very right, very early on, of course the framework libraries themselves leveraged windows internals quite a bit early on, so it was very important. When .Net 3.5 came out is when, imho C# was pretty much done, in terms of language features, I mean there's been a few things since, but it was a joy to work with compared to anything else at 3.5.

I don't agree with everything they've done, and it continues to improve. I've been reaching for node.js far more often the past couple years than I have for .Net though. Being able to deploy on Linux has been a pretty significant requirement for a lot of things, and node allows really quick ramp-up, though there are too many "expert" JS devs that aren't.

I'm hoping to find an excuse to play around with VS Code and .Net core bits pretty soon... then again, I've been saying the same for rust and go for a while as well.