I'm not sure why you were downvoted either, but I suspect it's because you weren't very nice in your (very true) presentation of the pitfalls of using C# as a g

I'm not sure why you were downvoted either, but I suspect it's because you weren't very nice in your (very true) presentation of the pitfalls of using C# as a general purpose, learning language. Many people on HN don't respond well to anything that sounds angry, I've found (through being thoroughly downvoted myself).