Comment by qingcharles

I've worked at multiple startups that were built on .Net from day one. One very large music streaming site built entirely on VB.NET [0].

[0] I actually think VB.NET is the superior .Net language, but it lost support at MS and died. I think the code is vastly more readable (to me) than C-style code, and I've coded in every C, Java, C#, whatever variant.