I believe colleges tend to circle around script or newer tools like Ruby, Rust, Python. A lot of development focuses on front-end tools like NodeJS/JavaScript/T

I believe colleges tend to circle around script or newer tools like Ruby, Rust, Python. A lot of development focuses on front-end tools like NodeJS/JavaScript/Typescript. .NET/C#/F#/VB are old. 20 years for C# and VB. And they weren't friendly on non-Windows platforms until recently (last five years or so). Microsoft procured the open source version of .NET (Mono) and decided to push the platform to a unified, cross-platform deployment. That started with .NET Core and has evolved to .NET 6. So you're coming to .NET awareness exactly when it's at its most effective cross-platform capabilities. And AWS and Azure both let you build C# functions/lambdas for serverless API's, so it has market appeal. I'm building my startup, Mach9Poker, in C# and the debugging/unit testing are top notch. The language C# is easy enough. It's the libraries you have to really learn and there is a "way" to Microsoft things that's different. But there are also massive helpers in IO, list management (Linq is one of the greatest technologies ever created), generics, lambdas, and more.