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I'm very surprised that C# rated so highly - maybe I'm out of touch - has it really gained that much traction? Which sectors is it focused in? Is it largely due
by NickPollard 16y ago
I'm very surprised that C# rated so highly - maybe I'm out of touch - has it really gained that much traction? Which sectors is it focused in? Is it largely due it being pushed strongly by Microsoft, or are there other reasons for large takeup?
- chrisaycock 16y agoStack Overflow was created by a very Microsoft-oriented team.
- sp332 16y agoI think Jon Skeet attracts them. http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet and (for fun) http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts :-)
- michaelbuckbee 16y agoThe initial set of SO users were from the Joel on Software forums and from Coding Horror readers (neither of which were strictly Microsoft development sites, but both had audiences that skewed heavily in that direction). One of the simple genius things that SO did was deliberately not segregate the community into product silos: no C#overflow, RubyOverflow, etc. even though at the beginning there was a fairly vocal outcry from users for them to do so.
- cpeterso 16y agoC# is also new "Visual Basic" for many internal corporate development projects.