Developer survey: C# losing ground

3MLOC C# web forms application dating back to 2002 and evolved since backed on SQL server on owned hardware.2. Along comes Remoting/DNA fad from MS P&P. Chunks rewritten into semi distributed nightmare on advice.3. Along comes WS-* fad from MS P&P. Chunks rewritten into even worse distributed nightmare on advice.4. Along comes MVC from MS. UI rewritten using this and EF.5. EF, WWF, Remoting, WS-* deprecated (yes all of them) and enough of MVC rewritten to break everything that's left (when they added async which is incidentally buggy as fuck even 10 years later with regular production deadlocks)6. . … Another set of massive breaking changes to the entire web pipeline which causes 3 months wall clock work for 3 people across 120 microservices.10. Try to get this shit working in kubernetes on linux and you find that the certificate store implementation is STILL based on the shitty half arsed APIs written in 2002 which has an abstraction which doesn't make sense on any platform other than windows resulting in 2 month delay on a project while people work out how to do cert management with hashicorp vault in this environment which ends up in a whole chunk of sticky tape and string just to get it out of the door.11. Along comes MSFT and says they're going to rebrand it all .Net 5.12. Everyone goes FUCK YOU we've had enough of this shit. No new projects on .Net / C#So the UI is going in the direction of React and Electron and the back end is Go, Python or Node. And the storage engine is going postgres. And this is all on AWS. And the grass is greener. There's some poo dotted around on it but it's not up to your neck.That's why C# is dying: Lots of people experienced with it don't want to get hurt any more. Id say C# is great at doing what it was made for, easy desktop app development. It probably looks like it works. Watch out for threads and service shutdowns. Sometimes the two are fairly incompatible and will hang service manager. Never as easy as it looks unfortunately. I worked with some big companies. They all use C#.