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C# is widely used, but it's a bit of a sacred cow.

• brianberns 8y ago
  I was a C# programmer for years, and got tired of it. But instead of complaining, I just switched to F#. That's one of the nice things about the .NET platform.
• moomin 8y ago
  C#’s a weird one: it’s widely used, but still unpopular. It’s got genuinely large problems (like the anemic OS ecosystem) but when considered as a language on its own, it’s been ahead of the game in its class.
  • GordonS 8y ago
    It may be unpopular with the HN crowd, but that's more by proxy, in so far as a Microsoft stack in general is unpopular here. C# is however very popular in the enterprise world. I've been using it for work and side projects alike for many years, and personally I love it.
    • Gibbon1 8y ago
      Offhand thought just now. Java programmers seem to argue a lot back and forth about build/deployment systems. I don't see C# people do that much.
    • Const-me 8y ago
      Not just enterprise. Mainstream uses for .NET are windows desktop software (WPF & XAML are the best GUI toolkits for the platform), videogames (Unity3D is quite popular), cross platform mobile development (Xamarin). Now when .NET Core supports ARM Linux, it also works well for some embedded applications, but I don’t know whether somewhere except me does that.