Mono appears to be dead. I enjoy making life hard so I dont use windows. I am trying to learn very simple c# but am having trouble gettung visual studio to run anything on linux (debian/mint). It wont even run with dotnet in the terminal either. I dont really like all the features in vs either, i just want simple.
For reference im learning with the yellow book by rob miles. I want to learn the old way, not using a bunch of shiny helping tools (i never feel i really learn with those and it stunts my growth).
What are you talking about? C# is massively popular, especially with corporations and government. If someone wants to get a job writing software, they won’t go wrong learning C#.
Python is great for data evaluations and scripting. There’s nothing wrong with learning it, or any other language for that matter… including Java, C, or C++
C# represents about 12% of the jobs out there.
https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-programming-languages/
It’s not unpopular, but it’s definitely not “massively” popular anymore. Different languages have different strengths and weaknesses, but C# has a few more weaknesses than most. In my opinion. Yes, there’s nothing wrong with learning any particular language you want to learn (and I’m a little surprised to see C++ has fallen significantly lower than C#, sure, fair enough). I’m just struggling to see an upside for learning it in the modern day (and now knowing more about what this person’s goal is I feel even more strongly that C# is the wrong answer for them. In my opinion.)
It’s literally the 4th most popular language on the list. And JS/TS is obviously number one due to it being used in frontend as the de facto standard. So when looking at languages used for backend systems, it’s number 3.
I have no idea what you’re referring to when you say C# has more weaknesses than most. C# is incredibly solid these days, typed, easy to write and with great support for web apis (or anything really).