C# really hits a weird sweet spot that people on the outside don't really recognize due to C#'s heritage as a Java clone , previous windows dependencies and ant

C# really hits a weird sweet spot that people on the outside don't really recognize due to C#'s heritage as a Java clone , previous windows dependencies and anti-MS bias of the early 00s. While i still really can't stand C#'s VB based naming conventions and property happyness the language is extremely practical in many situations. Writing LINQ you still think mostly in SQL but don't have to worry about string escaping, while on the other side of the spectrum you have structs,spans,stack allocs and in/out/ref vars that gives the code written in the language a chance to keep up with C/C++ on modern CPU's where cache-friendlyness is paramount. Java on the other hand has opted to avoid much of this and thus has to depend on GC's magically becomming while when working with C# developers can dig down and optimize things on their own instead.