Why you should learn C#


This general-purpose language was originally designed by Microsoft to be used for developing apps on the Microsoft platform. C# developers love the language for being pleasant to use and well-designed. If you want to build apps for the Microsoft platform, you should naturally learn C#. This programming language is often the recommended language to use when making games through the Unity Game engine.

Beginner Friendliness

C# was designed to be simple and easy to use. Since C# is a high level language, it reads somewhat closer to English. In addition, this development language abstracts away (i.e. handles for you) most of the complex details of the machine (computer) so you can focus on programming instead of worrying about the little details many consider both tedious and difficult.

If you’re planning to get into C# game development, then Unity is also designed to be easy to get started with as well. It may take time to learn everything about this coding language, and sometimes it may take a bit more code to get some working prototype. However, as you get a hang of things, C# will become easier.

Scalability & Easy to Maintain

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As a statically typed language, C# is faster than dynamically typed languages because things are more clearly defined. Thus, when the app is running, your machine’s resources will not be wasted on checking the definition of something in your code.

Community & Resources

First of all, community size is important, because the larger a programming language community is, the more support you’d be likely to get. As you step into the programming world, you’ll soon understand how vital support is, as the developer community is all about giving and receiving help. Moreover, the larger a community, the more people will be building useful tools to make development in that particular language easier. As of now, there are over 600 notable programming languages world-wide.

C# has the 4th Largest StackOverflow Community.



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Career Opportunities

16% of the top 100 million websites are powered by the ASP.NET framework, of which many are using C#. There are some opportunities in enterprise-level backend development. However, tech giants mainly use Java for its better portability and tools. Nonetheless, if you already know C#, it shouldn’t be too hard to pick up Java if push comes to shove. With the rise of game development, C# developers are likely to have better opportunity, since Unity has pretty much become the de facto game engine for indie game development. This language is often used from small to enterprise level companies to develop mobile and desktop applications along with dynamic linked libraries (DLL’s) to integrate into financial and data intensive databases. This can benefit a company greatly with data management and reporting structures, and is currently in high demand.



C# Evolution

As the programming language was developed by Microsoft to build apps on the Microsoft platform, Microsoft will likely make sure to keep C# relevant and updated. A programming language’s ability to stay relevant and survive also depends on whether the language is getting new blood. In terms of search volume according to Google Ad words, C# has a healthy number of search volume and is the 5th place in terms of the programming language people are most interested in learning. This number grew by around 22.2 ％ in 2015 and is continuing to grow.