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C# Alive

C#
KindProgramming language
Appeared2000
StatusAlive
CreatorAnders Hejlsberg / Microsoft
FamilyC
Sourcedotnet.microsoft.com ↗

Microsoft's Java answer by Delphi's author — grew into the .NET lingua franca and keeps absorbing features faster than almost anyone.

Influenced by C++ Delphi Java
Created by Anders Hejlsberg Microsoft
Influenced Vala Kotlin TypeScript

Hejlsberg's C# (2000) — Microsoft's Java answer, built after Visual J++ was killed — became the .NET flagship: properties, LINQ, async/await (the first mainstream async), and Blazor.\n\n.NET open-sourced it in 2014; it's the enterprise-OO language that aged best.

Sources

  1. dotnet.microsoft.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)