I live in Bulgaria. Getting a full Microsoft stack is very easy for Bulgarian programmers because piracy and hacking has very strong traditions here and is ingrained in the culture. Sadly .NET, JAVA and PHP are abnormally popular for development here. There are few big players that were born from outsourcing jobs in the late 90s - early 00s and the languages kinda stick.

Can you give a short list of some of the benefits that touching the monitor can bring to a developer?

@Napych - tried it. Still find it lacking compared to the ease of debugging with vstudio.

As a fellow programmer forced to use PHP on daily basis, you all miss the worst part of the language - the terrible terrible debugging and tracing options. If you have a complicated project it is almost impossible to debug with anything else than print_r or echo. I feel like being punished for lots of sins. So if your open source project is something that can get the world off of PHP without invalidating all the old working and tested code - just show me the github link.