[mmargerum]

C# grew and it's almost as old.

[dmitriid]

Java is 1995

C# is 2000. And Windows-only for a very long time.

[philliphaydon]

And C# is growing…

[justoreply]

due to Unity and gaming maybe?

[dmitriid]

And microservices. asp.net is quite good for it, it turns out. I now know of several companies developing their backend stuff in C#.

[mmargerum]

I've steered clear of c# my whole career but .net 7 is the bees knees. the minimal API makes it very easy to build endpoints without a bunch of ceremony code.