I think making it open to all would be best. Just the other day I had a general question about repository patterns and I didn't post it here because I was afraid of being off topic, the question I thought was too advanced for /v/learningprogramming, and too much of a general question for StackOverflow.

I've been mostly doing sharepoint dev work for the past 7 years but recently started getting back into real dev work. I am amazed at how things have come.

How do you figure .net antiquated?

I've been doing C# for over 10 years and this is usually how I have seen this type of stuff implemented. However, a recent project that I worked on has made me question the practice, mainly because of unit testing. We had one massive function that manipulated about a dozen other classes and when we came back and tried to add unit tests we found it nearly impossible (admittedly though the learning curve was a substantial factor). Unit testing static classes, while possible, is cumbersome and painful so I am almost of the opinion to not use them but in simple scenarios.

I don't see anything wrong with C#, but I have been using it since 1.0 came out so i am biased. Frankly I am excited to see some of the open source stuff coming out of Redmond since Balmer left. The language isn't the issue with the site, it's maturity of the code and basic capacity planning. As for getting more contribution, I actually would love to contribute to the code base.