>Not once have I ever had to interact with these technologies in a way that would benefit from my application using the same language.
You haven't had to or refuse to? I've interacted with plenty of C# teams in my career and getting them to step outside the box to solve an actual technical problem in a reasonable way is _painful_ for this very reason.
They'd rather set up a meeting or hire more consultants and stonewall a project for over a year.
Most programmers can learn and pick up C# in like a day, but Windows-based developers seem to have a lot of trouble going the other way.
You haven't had to or refuse to? I've interacted with plenty of C# teams in my career and getting them to step outside the box to solve an actual technical problem in a reasonable way is _painful_ for this very reason.
They'd rather set up a meeting or hire more consultants and stonewall a project for over a year.
Most programmers can learn and pick up C# in like a day, but Windows-based developers seem to have a lot of trouble going the other way.