I don't have as much experience or knowledge as others in this thread, but just taking the opportunity to chime in that C# is a great language, and pretty pleas

I don't have as much experience or knowledge as others in this thread, but just taking the opportunity to chime in that C# is a great language, and pretty pleasant to work with. And it was a language to which I was introduced as a 24 year old at a venture-backed startup, not at like Boeing or the company Dilbert works at or something. It has features like LINQ. It has routinely had a lot of good updates, new features always coming out, increases in performance, etc. The primary thing lacking has been good support for developing and deploying on Linux, and a couple other devops-related things. It's a shame to see that holding it back, but at least MSFT actually opened up Linux support at all (nobody thought they would).