[scarface74]

I love .Net. It’s my favorite language and you can tell that it was written by competent adults that know how to design a language and the surrounding framework. I used .Net from 2007 with Windows CE/Compact Framework all the way to 2020.

That being said, I would never tell am aspiring developer, especially one with a CS degree to learn it.

Besides, Microsoft, it’s not used heavily in most companies that pay top of the market and it’s definitely not the language that I would chose to use if I had to go through a generic coding interview.

Yes, I’m well aware that most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are “enterprise developers” and many use .Net. While .Net has been cross platform for years, it’s still the choice of mostly old school Windows shops.

[lazypenguin]

There is a very sizable group of game developers who use C# thanks to Unity so it’s actually pretty common advice for entry level game devs to learn C#.

[scarface74]

I would also never tell someone with a CS degree to go into game dev. It’s notoriously soul crushing

[bob1029]

I'd tell 'em to try it for 6-12 months and then take a mandatory vacation in F500

Game dev was like a kind of inspirational boot camp for me. I got to see (for better or worse) what the true limits of a professional developer and artist were.

I couldn't even stand it for a year, but it shaped my attitude towards work and hard things ever since.

[ithrow]

What would choose for a generic coding interview?