.NET 10

>I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

I love C# and .NET and I use them extensively but I dislike the fact that the framework still kind of forces you into OOP.

If you like to have a more functional workflow you have to roll your own stuff or wrap objects in functional constructs.

But .NET is excellent for startups because:

-it is very fast to develop in

-has excellent tooling

-it is batteries included

-generally you have ONE way to do things that is accepted by most developers

-documentation is very good

-it supports large codebases with ease

-community is large enough

-you can use it for many areas, from embedded, to high performance computing, to desktop, mobile, web backend and web frontend

-it is performant

There's F# if you want to go fully functional.

Why C# doesn't have first class functions and can't go fully functional (and likely never will): Scala tried and its compiler is slow, even after so many iterations and new novel compiler ideas.

I like the way it is, and hope it doesn't change. Unless they could make this possible without making the compile process extremely slow.