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I’ve started on a new project. Its in .NET. The most interesting thing so far about .NET is how immature it feels.

And of course the fact that DevStudio is like getting on a bicycle after IntelliJ’s Ferrari. C#Refactory helps a bit, but I didn’t expect the development process to be as painful as it is.

I heard on of the SmallScript gurus talk at XtC about smalltalk on .NET a couple of months ago, and one of the things that stuck in my mind was his comment that smalltalk “didn’t feel the same” without the dynamic environment and the smalltalk refactoring browser. Its not the language that made it great, but the environment.

The same is true of java v .NET. After all, C# is just Java with (IMHO) some (often poorly thought out) additions. Even the class libraries are much the same as Java. There are some nice things, but not as many as I had expected.

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