C#
Microsoft's modern object-oriented language on .NET, used for back ends, desktop apps and Unity games. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Created by
- Anders Hejlsberg
- First release
- 2000
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://dotnet.microsoft.com/languages/csharp
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Functional, Concurrent
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- Yes
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Bytecode on a virtual machine
- Main implementation
- .NET (CoreCLR)
- Concurrency
- async/await, tasks, threads
- Null safety
- Yes
- Package manager
- NuGet
- Used for
- Back end, Desktop, Games, Mobile
- Specification
- ECMA-334