From experience, "coding" seems to be how people have been trying modernize what was typically called programming. Coding sounds so more interesting and non-geeky to non-programmers, maybe get more people interested and remove the old stereotypes.

We can already do this using the Mono framework for C# applications, but the open sourcing of .NET will greatly improve functionality.

I was just about to say the same thing. I would assumed (or at least hope) that Intel have fixed this with the 6 generations of hyperthreaded processors released after this.

Some related subverses that you could also get in touch with are /v/networking, /v/buildapc, /v/linux, /v/sysadmin, /v/windows. I just looked and it look like networking isn't super active, but that could be changed with some cross-subverse awareness.