Similar feelings. I'm old(?) enough to have wrangled with NT4 in a professional setting, I remember the Halloween documents, the malicious treatment of Java, I even lead the charge on samba deployments.

I don't even own any windows device, but I think csharp might be my current favorite balance of pragmatism and design. I have quite a few rather important things running on dotnet core. I appreciate their un-google hammering persistence on things and the willingness to iterate until they get it right.