Why developers like C#

What is C#?

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

C# is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

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Who uses C#?

Companies

2499 companies reportedly use C# in their tech stacks, including Delivery Hero , Accenture , and Hepsiburada .

Delivery Hero

Accenture

Hepsiburada

Stack Overflow

Alibaba Travels

Intuit

Trustpilot

ViaVarejo

ROBLOX

Developers

44356 developers on StackShare have stated that they use C# .

ASP.NET Boilerplate

ytnobody

Math.NET

Amrur

Web Stack

Cupong.me

Ryca

ToolBelt

Personal Stack

C# Integrations

Sentry , .NET , .NET Core , Azure Functions , and Blazor are some of the popular tools that integrate with C# . Here's a list of all 114 tools that integrate with C# .

Sentry

.NET

.NET Core

Azure Functions

Blazor

Snyk

Unreal Engine

imgix

IBM DB2

Pros of C#

346

Cool syntax

289

Great lambda support

261

Great generics support

207

Language integrated query (linq)

178

Extension methods

Automatic garbage collection

Properties with get/set methods

Backed by microsoft

Automatic memory management

Amaizing Crossplatform Support

High performance

LINQ

Beautiful

Great ecosystem of community packages with Nuget

Vibrant developer community

Great readability

Dead-simple asynchronous programming with async/await

Visual Studio - Great IDE

Open source

Strongly typed by default, dynamic typing when needed

Productive

Object oriented programming paradigm

Easy separation of config/application code

Great community

Operator overloading

Cool

OOPS simplified with great syntax

Events management using delegates

Linq expressions

Good language to teach OO concepts

High-performance

Unity

Conditional compilation

Organized and clean

Coherent language backed by an extensive CLR

Comprehensive platform libraries

Top level code

Concise syntax, productivity designed

Lovely

Statically typed

Interfaces

Sophisticated overall

Far more sleek and sphisticated than other languages

Interfaces

Decisions about C#

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose C# in their tech stack.

Christopher Tucker

Founder and CTO at cartheur · Mar 27, 2019 | 1 upvote · 118.4K views

Shared insights

Cartheur Robotics

Problem was wanting to save time and money on converting well-written C# code to Ubuntu . Solution was to use Mono and Visual Studio Code which allowed us to convert our application libraries straight across.

Omilegan Daniel

Application Developer at FlexSystems Infotech Solutions · Sep 10, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 187.7K views

Needs advice

Java

and

Xamarin

I'm a C# .NET Core developer. As mobile app development sells more, I hope to upgrade my career to a mobile app developer. I'm looking at Xamarin Forms or Java . What would you advise?

Thanks

_gurujij_

Jun 25, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 107.3K views

Needs advice

Android Studio

and

Flutter

I have experience in game development for 5 years in C# and have a coding background of around 7 years. I want to choose a mobile application tool, but I am confused about what to choose between android native or Flutter .

zachary c

Jun 19, 2020 | 4 upvotes · 81.1K views

Needs advice

Google Chrome

and

Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2019 keeps rendering only part of my project. I changed from 200% dpi to 100% and it is still doing this. Any ideas?

Razer Blade Stealth Intel 7th gen i7 8550u

A little more info, I'm trying to make my GUI my self in WPF C# so I turned off FormBorderStyle

I have Windows 10 Pro Installed which Home is usually the go-to.

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall and see if that does anything. Fingers crossed, I was looking for a more concrete solution though. :x

Mostafa Hamza

Jul 17, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 88.1K views

Needs advice

React

and

Vue.js

I am working on a new project and need advice on which front-end technology to use. The back-end is all written in C# MVC and Microsoft SQL Server databases. In the current project, we are using the same technology stack for the front-end; we are using cshtml (razor) with jQuery .

Tom Pattison

Mar 16, 2020 | 1 upvote · 57.3K views

Chose

Checkout-com

C# Preferred for back-end application code.

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C# Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to C# ?

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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