>I observe the opposite sentiment among .NET developers for features added in C# despite that its backwards compatibility is also fully preserved. They say “the

>I observe the opposite sentiment among .NET developers for features added in C# despite that its backwards compatibility is also fully preserved. They say “the language is getting bloated”, I don't recognize this sentiment at all and I think it's almost non-existent among developers who use ReSharper or Rider that will both introduce useful new language features as a refactoring suggestion that is one shortcut away. .Net developers can easily get away with not keeping up with new C# language features. A .Net developer who went into coma in 2012 after having learned async/await and ASP.NET MVC can return to a hypermodern ASP.NET Core 7 codebase and be almost instantly productive.