[Fyron]

"But the same thing can be said about parts of dotNET."

Indeed. However, those tend to be arcane issues with very specific parts of the language set, rather than right up front at the basic starting point.

Visual Studio doesn't seem very good at taking care of the messy bits when dealing with COM guis... It doesn't even bother to start you off with a frame in the window where you can use the visual editor; you have to manually set that up and deal with the hWnd madness.

"Because there are lots of those trivial little applications, and if all of them begin using triple the RAM they needed, you very quickly run into performance issues."

Sure, if you needed to run 100 of them at a time, all the time...