Which goes to show that the answer to "what technology should I use to start my startup in [current year]" is always "the one you know best" since Joel was a former Microsoft employee before starting Stack Overflow and his other projects.

C# is great. It's a high level programming language and it's also super-fast handling ~7.000.000 requests per second on a single server according to the following benchmark:

https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati...

C#/.NET can be super fun and productive. Use what you know.

C# was great in 2008, then it got kind of enterprisey and closed - not it's ridiculous and getting steam into all avenues of software engineering. It's arguably the most powerful language in the world.

How is it closed? It's now better than ever with the new cross-platform .NET Core with all kinds of runtime and language advancements.

s/not/now

in the past two years .NET has become (normally/probably) the best performing GC runtime out there. With some nice features as well, and a better cross platform story.

hipness has increased