Honestly, I think the appeal to ancient simplicity is a bad take. Spend the trivial bit of time it takes to learn modern C# syntax and you'll be able read any

Honestly, I think the appeal to ancient simplicity is a bad take. Spend the trivial bit of time it takes to learn modern C# syntax and you'll be able read any C# fine. You'll get to use modern tooling built on a language designed along with the tools, as long as you embrace it. On the other hand, you can spend the time it takes to learn the idiosyncrasies of every different C codebase you encounter and how they handle all the little problems differently for trivial things that would be well documented and baked into C#.