C# is highly underrated

[Ritchie II]

.NET is constantly improving and the kind of tooling and libraries they have is just state of the art. I wonder why many more people are not using it.

 

[uanita]

I guess everyone wants to become a Python Developer nowadays. I guess other programming languages (like python) are also easier to learn than C#.

 

[nolfsson]

The reasons are historical. Back when C# was first released to the public, Bill Gates had just resigned, but Microsoft still had the "evil empire" reputation. The only people developing for C# were people who were already on the Microsoft platform.

When the shift to open source came in the mid-late 2000s, nobody developing for that world was using C# or Microsoft languages/implementations.