NGEN makes the topic of JIT compilation time irrelevant, and also allows the possibility of memory-mapping for multiple processes. JIT is a one-time thing per process anyway. There's a lot of inefficiency in the .NET Framework, but I get around it by writing my own stuff.

It isn't faster than C#. It isn't even as expressive or as elegant.

I've run in-process game bots in C# and the effect on frame rate was negligible or zero. C# is industrial strength, you can use it for anything. In fact the next official MS C# compiler is written in C#, plus Exchange Server is written in C#.

On top of this, there's no way in hell the .NET CLR runs slower than Sun's JVM. Even when MS was creating a competing JVM theirs was faster than Sun's.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT)

What a long ass name for such a useless agency. Who gives a fuck about their opinions? What, do you think the government knows more about power plants than the fucking people who actually build them?

I'd like to see one of you shysters run an aspiring business without forming a limited-liability corporation first.

You're a communist. Just say it.

India is becoming too much of a free market for shit like this to "just happen". I bet the government is preventing new power sources.

When will Steven Sinofsky run out of time? By all accounts he's driving the whole enterprise into the ground with mindless dogma.

More class warfare bullshit inspired by the real greed and jealousy from below. If the federal government is too lax about who it buys software from, then regulate the federal government. Don't be a buddy fucker.

Spare your bitterness and learn C++, and if you work hard enough maybe someday Linux will support networks without needing a text editor.

Sinofsky is a fucking dipshit and he's overreaching. You couldn't get away with this on Linux because they would just jettison your dumb Metro window manager like used toilet paper. When Metro grows dated (almost there already) they're hardcoded and fucked. XAML & C++, eh? Can anyone see the obvious retardation? If you guessed that C++ doesn't have reflection and XAML is based entirely on reflection, you are correct. IThis, IThat, death-by-COM, surely that was what we were all clamoring for instead of an optimized WPF right?

What this article has endorsed (i.e. government intervention) is exactly what has caused the problem. Nowhere in Part One of the article did I see any mention of actual economics, just a bunch of OMG THEIR TAKING R BUSINES. Ask yourself, what makes it cheaper to manufacture overseas? Could it be corporate taxation? Regulation? Expense of Social Security and unemployment insurance? Yadda Yadda Yadda? Anyone listening?

Just look at their new aircraft carrier, for example.

Speak for yourself.