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Why do you use C#?

Just curious for those who have picked C# as their primary language your reasons?

My core reasons:

  • It was my first job out of college, it's what I'm most familiar with (as a startup person, moving fast is important)
  • Huge ecosystem of developers, add-ons, extensions, libraries, etc - many problems are "solved" by others, lots of help, forums, blog posts
  • Guided by MSFT. I like that the language is guided by a large company (as Rust, React are as well, Java to a lesser extent). It creates a forward momentum and lots of resources to making things better for users of the language
  • "Relatively" opinionated, you want to do rest API's, there's a clear pattern everyone uses, everyone has the same problems and similar needs - means the frameworks evolve in ways that make it easier for everyone. The new Throttle attribute's for API's a good example of something that lots of people need solutions for and there is now some out of the box support for it.
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

  • Learning to Code 79% use "other online resources" (videos, blogs, forums)
  • C# is number 8 on the list of "Most Popular Technologies" - a number of the technologies ahead of C# aren't mutually exclusive - javascript/typescript with C# backend, sql for data access, etc. I think this suggests C# is pretty popular.
  • .NET is the most popular framework
  • #1 IDE Visual Studio Code; #2 Visual Studio

Lotta interesting information here, what are your take aways?

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/Open linkView original on lemmy.world