C# Features: Innovations or Imitations? - Part 1

C# Features: Innovations or Imitations? - Part 1

Around the year 2000, Microsoft developed the C# language (led by Anders Hejlsberg ). This language, along with the .NET framework had a significant strategic purpose. Microsoft would create a better language tied to Windows, driving customers to the Windows ecosystem and Microsoft products. Perhaps this was part of the notorious Embrace, extend, and extinguish Microsoft strategy (now in the past). This development came in response to Java, which has gained enormous popularity by then.