No drama over Generics, Exceptions, Lambdas/Closures, functional vs procedural syntax, etc. C# either did a lot of this well already or was quietly added to the language in broadly sensible ways. The package management isn't perfect, but I don't think any ecosystem has mastered that yet. It's more sensible than NPM at least. ( But what isn't! )
And all the while, a lot of work has been done for performance, where now I'd trust it to be as fast as almost anything else. I'm sure the SIMD wielding C/Rust experts can out-perform it, but for every day code C# is writeable, readable and still performs well.
Okay, so C# 1.0 was a clunky beast, it wasn't until version 2 where they fixed things like captures of variables in closures when it became pleasant to write. I don't know if it was Microsoft's ownership or the 1.x C# experience that put people off.
Today I'm running a home asisstant with a side service written in dotnet on a raspberry pi 4 raspbian in docker containers. If it didn't advertise the dotnet version in the logs I'd never know.
In the meantime, the parallel universe (to HN at least) of dotnet happily and silently keeps delivering… can’t wait for the C# rennesaince.