C# tooling is very sub-par compared to what exists in the Java world, and I'm not just talking about build tooling (package management is a tough problem and Maven/Gradle are not perfect but NuGet is just atrocious) but debugging/deployment tooling as well. It's an artifact of how C# was a closed-source product for so long, the first-party tooling is pretty good for basic stuff but try deploying it outside a Windows environment and the edges become viciously sharp. Mono is a joke compared to OpenJDK, and I can happily deploy my application on any of a half dozen web servers that provide some superset of capabilities of the official server.

I understand that's changing of course, now that Microsoft has open-sourced the core of the language and started pushing to get support onto Linux and other platforms, but they are still making up an almost 2-decade deficit here.

But yeah, Visual Studio beats the pants off Netbeans and Eclipse, while functional, is very clearly what happens when you let an engineer design a UI, everything is possible and nothing is easy.