[CharlieDigital]

I was working at a YC startup which was re-writing a portion of their backend to address some scalability and performance issues. The team was already familiar with JS and TypeScript as the initial implementation was Node.

I suggested C# because of the similarity to TS syntactically while being multi-threaded and more performant for the use case but was amazed at the backlash.

It's interesting to me that many teams that are already comfortable working full stack with TS reach for Go or Rust instead of C#. I can understand Rust if a team is doing systems level programming, but C# is an easier lift than Go (IMO) for teams building APIs and apps who are already versed in TS because the paradigms are very similar (async/await, try-catch-finally, generics, inheritance, tuples, deconstruction, anonymous types, general syntax, etc.)

[wofo]

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of C# for web stuff. I'd take it over Rust any day, unless there are strong reasons to want a systems language.