I've been doing C# for a long time, and throughout C# has quietly got on with delivering. No drama over Generics, Exceptions, Lambdas/Closures, functional vs p

I've been doing C# for a long time, and throughout C# has quietly got on with delivering. No drama over Generics, Exceptions, Lambdas/Closures, functional vs procedural syntax, etc. C# either did a lot of this well already or was quietly added to the language in broadly sensible ways. The package management isn't perfect, but I don't think any ecosystem has mastered that yet. It's more sensible than NPM at least. ( But what isn't! ) And all the while, a lot of work has been done for performance, where now I'd trust it to be as fast as almost anything else. I'm sure the SIMD wielding C/Rust experts can out-perform it, but for every day code C# is writeable, readable and still performs well. Okay, so C# 1.0 was a clunky beast, it wasn't until version 2 where they fixed things like captures of variables in closures when it became pleasant to write. I don't know if it was Microsoft's ownership or the 1.x C# experience that put people off.