> C# [..] but I would say that their choices over the years have been more pragmatic overall from the perspective of someone who needs to write readable, good q

> C# [..] but I would say that their choices over the years have been more pragmatic overall from the perspective of someone who needs to write readable, good quality code without jumping through too many hoops or getting lost in the verbiage. I personally don’t agree with that, C# is very “impulsive” at adding new features, which sounds cool in isolation, but makes the language significantly more complex to understand, and has non-intuitive interactions with other features. I think C# is quick at going the C++ way, and there is no return from there if we guarantee compatibility. I much prefer Java’s approach, where yeah, at times one might lack some syntactic sugar/nicety (often greatly overcome by IDE/tooling’s advancements), but over time they do add important ones, but only commit to features that have been earnestly tried and sustainable.