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I've been on C# for over a decade and I'm still very happy with it. I think it's highly underrated in the startup space. When helping start my current startup,

I've been on C# for over a decade and I'm still very happy with it. I think it's highly underrated in the startup space. When helping start my current startup, one of the founders asked why I chose C# as he was asked by others why we'd pick that language/stack as it's not common for SF startups. I told him that it's less about the language and I could do just about anything with it. It's turned out great and of all the things to worry about, the language hasn't ever come up again.

kemiller2002 6y ago
C# is definitely not sexy, but it is well documented, and there is plenty of help. I don't see why more companies go this route (not just C#, but any language that fits this). Boring is good when you have a short timeframe and it has to work well with minimal fuss.
- ywei3410 6y ago
  "Boring" languages almost always equal more boilerplate. Personally, I'll take an expressive, GC'ed language, but write "boring"-ish code when I'm on a short time-frame and I have few developers. EDIT. Just realised this sounds needlessly antagonistic; the point I'm trying to make is that "boring" is too coarse a measurement. Java 1.8 is more "boring" with it's required explicit type declarations, but I would /always/ pick a newer Java version to avoid the boilerplate.
woohoo7676 6y ago
Agreed - the startup I work with now uses C# and its been very solid. The tooling is good, and the lang has never gotten in the way of getting work done.