C# was designed by Anders Hejlsberg, who had left Borland for Microsoft, in 1999, and implemented by Mads Torgersen in C and C++ for the CLR in 2000. C# compiles to CLR byte code (intermediate ...

GitHub's list is slightly different to RedMonk's latest index, which is based on GitHub projects and StackOverflow discussions. Its top 10 were JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, C#, CSS, C++ ...

Before 2016, TypeScript was not a top 10 language in GitHub's rankings but it climbed to seventh position in 2018 and over the past year has shot up to fourth spot, eclipsing C#, PHP and C++.

Although Win32 APIs could previously be used in other languages besides C/C++, that required workarounds -- wrappers or bindings -- such as the familiar P/Invoke scheme for C#. However, using P/Invoke ...

Python, C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, PHP, R, and SQL round out the top ten. Their actual rankings notwithstanding, three languages in that group are showing sharp upward momentum that's worth ...