For years, and indeed, even now, Java has been top of the heap when it comes to number of lines of code produced world wide. C# however has been catching up and is now snapping at the heels of the well established languages according to the TIOBE index.
C#'s original mandate, according to Anders Hjelsberg, was to make a simple and well structured language without the complications of C++'s multiple inheritance nightmare. Those of you that remember or perhaps still use C++ will know the pain of ATL and all that jazz. Now if you tell me you understand it then ok. If on the other hand you say that you like it I'll be inclined to question your sanity.
For me, it makes the most obscurely unreadable incomprehensible code that ever was written outside of an obfuscation contest.
As you may know from this blog, C# is now a prime language, not only on Windows platforms but also, through the auspices of the Novell / Mono / Xamarin effort a language available to developers of iPhone and Android platforms. It's also a great choice for stand-alone embedded systems with the .Net Micro Framework enabling C# on Gadgeteer and other platforms.
I'd love to see C# neck and neck with Java as a language choice and who knows, maybe one day, it will topple that venerable and, lets face it, equally managed language from the top of the index.
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