Recently at Connect(), Microsoft made a slew of new announcements. First, the public availability of Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. This just isn’t a new version of the signature developer tool, it also includes the latest bits for C# 7.0. Second, Google announced they were joining the .NET Foundation. This means that Google, technically a competitor of Microsoft, wants to be actively involved in the evolution of .NET (and indirectly C#). Third, the first public release of Visual Studio for Mac. As a native environment, Visual Studio for Mac will provide the same world class tooling support for Xamarin applications, using C# and F#.
We could go on, but there is a common thread that runs between many of these announcements. As a developer, choosing C# as a part of your technology stack is an excellent decision! But what if you are not a C# developer already? How does C# compare to other popular languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, etc?