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by Const-me 1926 days ago
> It's a (remote) cousin of C which tries to take some of the valuable performance tools from C and bring those to a managed runtime.

That’s correct. But at the same time, the language is way higher level than C or C++.

> experienced C# programmer can probably write code that runs circles performance-wise around code written by an experienced JS/Python developer in most cases.

In some cases, an experienced C# programmer can even write code which approaches or outperforms C. My Linux video player library https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo#per... uses CPU on par with VLC, and 20% less RAM.