C#

“less verbose Java with async/await like you have in other languages, and better performance than Typescript”

“IMO better syntax and VM than Java and easier to write performant code than other VM based langs like Python”

“Its async model is a pain point, but otherwise it really does a great job of being able to accommodate a vast range of use cases”

“C# is good in that it's "easy" yet the performance profile of the features allows optimized code to run far closer to C++/rust/etc”

“Java lacks a ton of quality-of-life features that are table stakes in other languages, including C# and Kotlin.”

“now it feels like it has become bogged down with chunks just abandoned on the alter of backwards compatibility”

“I love the performance changes and bits of functionality here and there, but the syntax-sugar is getting annoying.”

“there are a lot of limitations if you want AOT compilation and you still get the bloated binary and limited performance”

“I use it a lot these days and I find the AI rarely has any issues with language/framework and you get pretty good results.”

“The self-contained binaries still have pretty poor startup time and are large since they contain the whole JIT.”

“It's a product of an era of OOP when the idea of a program fitting in a developers head was a dangerous reactionary idea.”

“It has so many things, like pointer, you can define that memory alignment works like in C, SIMD, AoT compilation, Span”

“C# since getting Native AOT and the low level programming improvements, is close enough to Modula-3 design”

“C# is too much of a you hold it wrong language, you can easily avoid the problem you describe, but it is such a pain”

“Or C# has generic specialization, so if your generic param is a stuct, you get a separate implementation”

“One of the best parts about C# is they never stop bringing useful features from other languages back home to us in C#.”

“C# does it really well because if your problem isn't performance/memory-constrained, you can ignore these features and fallback on the language's natural ease of use.”

“Reified generics, value types, nullable reference types, LINQ are only some of the things that would give C# an edge in DevEx today.”

“C# has close to zero community and only really works properly in Windows which is far past its glory days”

“General purpose != multiple dialects, that is the trouble with languages like this - C# is a tower of babel.”

“A multi-paradigm language with GC and flexibility to allow you to write highly expressive or high performance code.”

“The language design team is really making sure that the features work well throughout and I think that does deserve some credit.”

“It's mostly a bunch of shiny-looking language features being bolted on, all in ways that make the language massively more complex.”

“I can onboard an average developer that's familiar with Typescript and have them be productive in C# in a week.”

“I quite enjoy C# and F# and while they are low boiler plate, you can really learn them in a week or two”

“Writing C# that doesn't allocate is like wearing a straightjacket and the language doesn't help you much with manual memory management.”

“C#, with default tooling, can compile without needing a VM, for windows, macOS, linux and some other platforms.”

“The sequence of turbo pascal / delphi / c# / typescript which brought us LSP as a sidekick (!) IMHO has benefitted the whole industry”

“Yes it can be done and it's helpful for cross platform with windows but I wouldn't consider it a first class citizen.”

“C# Native AOT gets rid of the JIT and gives you a pretty good perf+memory profile compared to the past.”

“C#'s distinction of being a cross-road among academic research, production system and business oriented language for applications makes it ideal tool”

“Everything just kind of worked the way I expected it to. There are sharp edges, but far fewer than expected and always for an actual reason.”

“There's been a really solid effort by the maintainers to improve performance in C# , especially with regard to keeping stuff off the heap.”

“C# is popular for a variety of reasons (fast, mature ecosystem, etc.); however, "just use C# because others are using it" is by itself not a compelling argument.”

“Too many -- WAY too many -- "features" from Javascript and functional languages have been jammed into C#, and the language has suffered for it.”

“Where C# has had object initialisers and pervasive IEnumerable with a very simple interface that nearly everything uses.”

“while both are decent languages, C# is the one that likes implementing every conceivable language feature immediately”

“It has both generic vector types across a range of sizes and a good set of intrinsics across most of the common instruction sets”

“there have been a lot of improvements to low-level C# since v7 that make unsafe unnecessary in a lot of situations”

“Java and C# did a much better job at introducing the features they needed without breaking the readability and familiarity of C.”