Dunno - MS seems to be doubling down on C++. They've essentially abandoned the F# team it seems. They haven't updated the CLR format since adding generics in v2. C# dev seems like they are sort of satisfied and just focusing on tooling. This many years, and not even tuples or pattern matching? Come on.

Or maybe I'm in a total echo chamber. Working with a client today, they were astonished to find out that:

  var x = new List() { 1 , 2 };
  var y = x;
  x.Clear(); // This affects y.

Absolutely astounded. They also had no concept of local variable scope, thinking they had to manually clear out the List so the next invocation of the function wouldn't have the old data. They aren't fresh devs. They've had professional programming jobs. They've built a successful company based on their code. It does non-trivial work (not just a web UI on a DB) and processes many $/sec. In fact, I'm impressed how successful they are.

So who knows, maybe MS's overwhelming feedback is from people that fundamentally don't understand what's going on, and they're the ones with money?

To be fair, I've seen successful C projects with lines like: buffer = malloc(....); // gets memory