I've actually found C# quite pleasant to develop with, so long as I didn't have to worry about targeting non-Windows platforms.
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It's fully cross platform with .NET Core and later.
It was even before through mono/xamarin
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What does fully cross platform mean? It sounds very vague and a lot like an exaggeration.
The standard .NET C# compiler and CLI run on and build for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. You can run your ASP.NET webapps in a Linux docker container, or write console apps and run them on Linux, it doesn't matter anymore. As a .NET dev I have literally no reason to ever touch Windows, unless I'm touching legacy code from before .NET Core or building a Windows-exclusive app using a Windows app framework.
Well, I'm currently writing a service and frontend, both in C# (Blazor for the UI), and using docker-compose to build and deploy them to a Raspberry Pi running Linux. So not only cross-platform, but cross-architecture as well.
This is not a new thing either. Since .NET Core was released almost 10 years ago, it has supported cross platform development.
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Yea this was a crosspost and also just a meme, but C# is my fav
And really cross-platform has come a LONG way...just as long as you don't need UI on Linux lolol
Not really, even GUI is going strong, check Avalonia UI.
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Yeah C# gets a bad rap. I spent a decade developing in C++, and Java before switching to C# because of program requirements. Now I never want to go back.
C# development was spearheaded by Anders Hjelsberg, one of the brains behind Borland Delphi/Object Pascal.
Does it get a bad rap outside of this meme? I've only heard praise. It's by far my favorite language
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I have used many languages in my 25 years of programming. C# is the best.
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Poor Visual J# (literal Microsoft Java) isn't even in the picture
Sun killed it fast enough so almost nobody remembers.
I'd argue we aborted before it could be born into mainstream
I'm not a big M$-fan but I actually like c# a lot. Java not so much.
I'm no pro though, I just guerilla-code in my spare time. But of all the languages it's actually my most used. Besides PPL and ASM 😁
I have 20 years programming experience and C# is one of my favorite languages. It feels so expressive and doesn't get in your way nearly as much as Java does. I feel like I'm writing the code I want to write instead of writing the code someone from 30 years ago with a fetish for boilerplate wanted me to write.
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Microsoft Java is one of those cases where MS got the "extend" phase so well executed that they didn't even need to finish the plan.
That said, the language is only good if you insist on using either it or Java. And the ecosystem around it is really, really bad.
You can't really kill a programming language though
Companies are going to continue using it just because it's what they used before
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C# is better than java just because it doesn't have as much brain rotting "DesIgN PaTTeRnS" gurus
A shame there is no real FOSS movement behind it (for what I know) it could do with some modernization.
What do you mean? The entire stack is open source.
I'm just hoping for a more thriving community behind it.
I think that is probably due to the places where it shrines isn't often a FOSS area. All my corporate use was for these massive windows applications. FOSS many times are small teams making very targeted solutions. Aside from Android, it feels like Java programmers are picking java out of personal skill. I don't known what apps I use would be a good target for C#.
That's probably it, it feels like a "corporate language" for most people, and probably is.
I use C# with Godot and have done some stuff at work but it's true it hasn't really its place it seems. Never have I thought about C# as a solution if I wasn't forced to use it.
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Its not so bad, there is Jellyfin, the various arr applications ( Radarr, Sonarr...), ShareX, Duplicati, and a lot of libs. It might not be as active as C , Python or Rust but I think saying that there is no real FOSS movement is a bit unfair.
I mean behind the evolution of the language itself.
I think he meant behind the language itself, not projects using it
Instead you get rotten-brained dependency injection rules.
Also, optional value semantics. I love value semantics!
Remember J#?
I remember J++. Ew.
I just unlocked a core memory.
So javascript is wario?
Who would be Waluigi?
TypeScript?
It is Microsoft JavaScript.
TypeScript is actually pretty nice, it'd be JScript instead.
TypeScript is only nice compared to JavaScript. It still has most of the warts and footguns of JS, but the typing system really is badly needed.
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