In reply to Rick.

Incidentally, as I was just reminded. The WP folks never made public statement to the community about WP.NET (Wordpress on .NET) a project that Phalcon did to show the power of Mono (.NET for Linux). They did a rather quick port of WP 3.3 to Mono and the results are significant.
If you look at the benchmarks (http://www.wpdotnet.com/) as well as information on the actual port you will go "oh my".

Performance is upgraded by an enormous amount with just a standard install.

That is what the WP core should be embracing. .NET is only going to get faster. The iterations of .NET and C# or VB being now faster than PHP is quite recent. As microsoft continues to refine code generation and the .NET framework which is far far far more capable than any PHP framework in existence the results are only going to get faster.

IF Wordpress is to survive the onslaught that is coming and in some respects already here in Wix, Web.com, etc. and thus, all of your jobs/work if you get paid for your themes or plugins then all you folks need stress your wants of seeing Wordpress on .NET. While it might sound scary ya'll being used to say PHP believe me.... C# or Visual Basic as well as the development environment itself is so superior its just night and day. You'll be jumping for joy.