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C# is programming language of the year 2025

• layer8 9mo ago
  > C# earned this distinction by achieving the largest year-over-year increase in ranking. And C is in second place in terms of year-over-year increase (besides also being second place in absolute ranking, after Python). Go figure.
• andsoitis 9mo ago
  C# has a ton going for it: - modern, cohesive language (strong static typing, functional features, first-class async/await, value types, spans, stackalloc) - pragmatic, not ideological - great runtime (.NET CLR) that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) - can do native compilation - one of the best developer experience (IDE, compiler, profiling) - excellent for many domains (cloud/backend, desktop, mobile, game dev, data & ML, systems adjacent) - language scales well with teams and code base size - great performance / safety balance - native interop
  • vips7L 9mo ago
    It just needs discriminated unions! https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/working-groups/discriminated-unions/union-proposals-overview.md https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/work...
  • SvenL 9mo ago
    I would add: - Roselyn compiler infrastructure which allows for custom static analysis - SIMD support - great ecosystem (orleans, ef core, aspire, asp.net core, blazor, signalr, etc) - LINQ
• btschaegg 9mo ago
  > I always assumed Java would eventually prevail I can understand that from an ecosystem perspective (at least to a degree), but based on language merits alone? Hard nope.