Also in my limited interaction, C# community has a very positive vibe and is noob friendly. I rarely see a discussion about any superiority over other language/stack/companies. Even the topline guys like Anders Hejlsberg are very humble and have strong empathy with a lowliest developer.

> I'm excited I may be able to play with C# again in the very, very near future.

Can't you just install windows as everybody else and start playing with your programming languages of choice?

I mean yes but that's an awful lot of effort and storage space taken up to install it and I don't have much storage left. I would much rather use it natively on Mac OS X and Linux with the option of deploying to Windows or Linux. When it's as flexible as Java in that way I'm going to use it :)

I don't think you'll get a visual studio build for linux or osx. That would mean making desktop .net cross platform and it's not in microsoft agenda. So i think you'd better wait until java becomes as awesome as c# is for you already :)

.NET Core & Visual Studio Code are current options, too.

JetBrains' Rider is looking really good in private beta, too. The last e-mail they sent out mentioned that the public preview version will be out soon.

I didn't realize this was a thing! Thanks! I'm looking forward to trying it out.