Whenever new C# language features are announced people outside the .Net world criticize the language for becoming too bloated. They forget that 99% of C# devel

Whenever new C# language features are announced people outside the .Net world criticize the language for becoming too bloated. They forget that 99% of C# developers use full fledged IDEs that gradually teach you new language features by suggesting useful refactorings. The only important C# specific language features that takes effort to understand is LINQ that came out in 2007 and async/await that came out in 2012. Any C# programmer who has been in coma since 2012 can get up and running with the more recent language features in just a few hours.