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Is it? Every time I see C# being mentioned here people agree how awesome it is. Not that I'm complaining, I love C#

• GuestHNUser 3y ago
  Agreed. I feel C# is appropriately rated on HN and other programming forums. It has perfomant memory options that other GC languages lack, and great builtin packages to use. Overall, it is a good language. My biggest issue with C# though is how badly exceptions are handled given that it is a statically typed langauge. I wish functions explicitly defined the exceptions it can throw since a minor package bump could add an exception without your compiler warning you that it isn't handled. I much prefer Rust, Go and Zig's error handling to C#'s since those kind of issues don't happen.
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    > It has perfomant memory options that other GC languages lack, and great builtin packages to use. As clarification for the audience, it isn't the only GC enabled language with C and C++ like capabilities, in fact there are several examples since the early 1980's. The adoption push for Java and scripting languages distorced the understanding of what was already available out there.
• Rapzid 3y ago
  Well, I see it as lack of fanboyism which is interesting and almost unique to the Java/C# ecosystem. A lot C# experts(and I mean REAL, low level experts) seem to also have very high Java expertise.. And those that have Java expertise but not C# seem to demur to those that do; image! But it's still niche(around here and in the startup world) and gets lumped in with Java and together they are not "hip" or "agile" or whatever.