C# is programming language of the year 2025
tiobe.comC# has a ton going for it:
- modern, cohesive language (strong static typing, functional features, first-class async/await, value types, spans, stackalloc)
- pragmatic, not ideological
- great runtime (.NET CLR) that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- can do native compilation
- one of the best developer experience (IDE, compiler, profiling)
- excellent for many domains (cloud/backend, desktop, mobile, game dev, data & ML, systems adjacent)
- language scales well with teams and code base size
- great performance / safety balance
- native interop
It just needs discriminated unions!
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/work...
I would add:
- Roselyn compiler infrastructure which allows for custom static analysis
- SIMD support
- great ecosystem (orleans, ef core, aspire, asp.net core, blazor, signalr, etc)
- LINQ
> C# earned this distinction by achieving the largest year-over-year increase in ranking.
And C is in second place in terms of year-over-year increase (besides also being second place in absolute ranking, after Python). Go figure.
> I always assumed Java would eventually prevail
I can understand that from an ecosystem perspective (at least to a degree), but based on language merits alone? Hard nope.