Ok, I'm a very jealous of .NET right now.

[Dygear]

I was reading today's coding horror (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/) article about Performance is a Feature (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/performance-is-a-feature.html), of any web site. At point three he talks about making performance a point of (public) pride, and using the MVC Mini Profiler (http://code.google.com/p/mvc-mini-profiler/) to profile his .NET stack. I am so freaking jelous of .NET web programmers right now. Mind you not enough to switch to .NET just yet, but still ... Pretty awesome stuff.

[DarkTimes]

ASP.NET MVC (http://www.asp.net/mvc) is a great Web platform, built on the .NET stack. Obviously StackOverflow is famously written in C#. You can download Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-web-developer-express), which gives you Microsoft's complete web development toolkit (and the Silverlight SDK). Also check out Phil Haack's blog (http://haacked.com/)*, he is the lead developer on .NET MVC.

* While you're at it, also check out Eric Lippert's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/), he is a lead dev on the C# compiler team.