[sciuromorpha_]

I saw a post on r/ProgrammerHumor a while back saying something along the lines of "why does no one make jokes about C# here" and the replies were all the same - there's nothing particularly funny, and all the users are quietly plugging away at their corporate jobs. Made me chuckle.

[jsmith45]

Yeah. It's not a language you come across a lot ouside of corp work, it largely avoided the absurdity of AbtractFactoryFactory and similarly overdesigned architecture that is a common focus of Java jokes, and it did not suffer from language stagnation for enough years to make the alternate languages for the VM feel like actually competition, as opposed to things that are mostly useful in certain specialist scenarios.

[astrange]

It’s popular in games now because of Unity and il2cpp. Even though it started as a Java ripoff, it’s infinitely better because it has value types.

But my impression using it in school was the standard library was even worse than Java. Where Java buries things under six namespaces of reverse domain name, C# buries them under what looks like random technical terms chosen to impress people.

ie there is no reason for System.Console.WriteLine() or System.Collections.ArrayList to be where they are. It doesn’t make your program work better.