> The first time I ever used C# was probably version 5? Maybe? We're on version 12 now and there's so much stuff in there that sometimes modern C# code from exp

> The first time I ever used C# was probably version 5? Maybe? We're on version 12 now and there's so much stuff in there that sometimes modern C# code from experts looks unreadable to me. That's funny given many of the changes were made to make C# look more like JavaScript! C# 6 introduced expression-bodied members for simplified syntax (like JavaScript), null-conditional operators, and string interpolation. C# 7 brought pattern matching, tuples, deconstruction, and local functions. C# 8 introduced nullable reference types for better null safety, async streams, and a more concise switch expression syntax. C# 9 to C# 12 added records, init-only properties, with expressions, and raw string literals, global using directives, top-level statements, list patterns, and primary constructors. In C#, if you need a string list you can do: List<string> items = []; // Not as concise as JS but type safe. As for TypeScript, nobody is supposed to use most of it -- unless you're authoring a library. You benefit from it's features because somebody else is using them. Languages draw inspiration from each other -- taking the good parts and incorporating them in. C# is a vastly better, easier, and safer language than it used to be and so is JavaScript.