[vishbar]

I see what you're saying between Swift, Go, and Rust, but I'm not sure C# belongs in the same category. There are orders of magnitude more real-life lines of code implemented in C# than the other three combined. It's much more comparable to Java.

F# may be a better comparison.

[cicero]

Indeed, Microsoft wanted to use a modified Windows-centric version of Java called J++, but Sun wouldn't let them, so they created C#.