I think that people bashing C# does not know what they are talking about.
Java is very much retarded language, with lots of over engineered libraries and not as portable as C#.

Also, the user base of C# is comparable to Java. (http://stackoverflow.com/tags)
No even mentioning Unity which is the most popular gaming dev plateform.

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