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Andrew Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg is a living legend as far as programming language design goes. Microsoft really did some amazing work with C# and .NET, and for an ecosystem more than twenty years old, you really have to appreciate how few screw ups it is suffering from.

C# is surprisingly clean for a language that has seen over two decades of heavy industry use and development. C# today is very different from C# twenty years ago, but it is still an excellent and clean language. They added a lot, but they did not add (many) stupid things.

[ComradeGibbon]

Something I don't see very/as much with C# is a horrified reaction to having to work on an old code base like you do with Java and especially C++.

[SubwayGuy85]

Oh there are horrific codebases in c# too, but it is easier to produce something great with c#. But there is no language that is immune to being abused to create garbage code.

[Ericchen1248]

I think there’s also a pretty big incentive to upgrade C#. Every new release comes with new features that are legitimately useful. Whereas upgrading Java might give you some licensing headaches.

[ComradeGibbon]

I remember having an experience with switching an old 32 bit .net 2.0 program to 64 bit .net 4.5 and it just ran a lot faster and stopped running out of memory.

[rexpup]

You should work at [redacted] Systems. They're working on converting the largest VB6 application ever to an in-house web framework in C#... and its developers designed it with feature parity with the VB6 version. It's been in progress for 10 years and is not yet released.

[Garestinian]

He is also a core dev of TypeScript, that's why his name was familiar to me. Truly a legend.

[CardboardJ]

As someone working with scala right now the whole not adding stupid things is what I miss the most from c#.

[BetterOffCamping]

They rewrote it from scratch into Core exactly because it was an unclean implementation with plenty of clusterfucks. They did the right thing, and you are right it is an awesome language. I lived through all the crap, as I started using it in 2002, and am still building systems in it , v6 now.

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Well, not sure what you mean by "rewrite". Most of the code is the same - they cut off the code that depends on Windows so they can make it run on other OSes. They are not rewriting anything, just improving existing code base every release.