you're probably right, and i'm not here to bash C#, just to show what can happen to a healthy language when external things are occurring in the meantime. C# 2

you're probably right, and i'm not here to bash C#, just to show what can happen to a healthy language when external things are occurring in the meantime. C# 2.0 was released around nov 2005. even with two solid years of use, that's 2008, and means i haven't touched windows in almost 10 years professionally! coincidentally, intel macs were released jan 2006, and vista was 2007. those same enterprise customers that wanted desktop apps started wanting web-based tools, for mostly good reasons. developers, especially web devs and designers started using macbooks. virtualisation, containers, etc. all came from linux/bsd, and that showed for a long time. but hey, who knows. maybe they'll magically fix all the issues with windows 10, regain people's trust especially w.r.t. to updates, captialise on Apple's hardware weakness (if you see it that way), make .NET and GUIs with .NET first-class citizens on other OS', then maybe?