Why not Java ?

• Multi language

  • ( + new language: C# )
  • Powerful annotation eg. for exotic language features

• Powerful VM (CLR)

  • more than security
    • unsafe but portable – pointer arithmetic Fortran/Cobol/C/C++
  • targetting many language
  • better performance
    • non-virtual methods
    • value-class bits: helps the GC
  • generics (bytecode support) / Pinvoke / ...

• C#

  • events, properties etc. ...