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I believe it to be an unnecessary burden to have to develop with different languages in different platforms and I feel it leads to a "Jack of all trades master of none" type of skillset..
Actually as a long time professional developer I believe that having different languages on a single platform as well as having a common cross platform set of languages are both strong benefits.

It is not at all uncommon for me to develop a single .NET solution using C#,VB.NET, C++/CLI all in the same executable (with the occasional F#, Ruby.Net, and others). This ability has really saved me time [and therefore $$$].

On the other hand, attempting to push platform/environment specific features into a common language (especially C++) is IMPO a major mistake. If I write C++ (99 or 0x) code, I want to make sure that it will run properly on every platform from embedded systems to large servers running radically different operating systems and with different processor architectures.

The two things I would like to see:

1) Have all extenstions to C++ default to DISABLED.
2) Have common UI experience for equivilant concepts. Visual Studio has gone a looooong way in this regard aspeect of development, but there still are a few "disconnect points". I realize that this goal is difficult (and perhaps impossible) to achieve, but it would be so "sweet".