C Sharp

Website: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/

Designed by: Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft)

C# (pronounced See sharp) is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms.

C# encompasses static typing,: 4  strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic,: 22  object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.The C# programming language was designed by Anders Hejlsberg from Microsoft in 2000 and was later approved as an international standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) in 2002 and ISO/IEC (ISO/IEC 23270) in 2003.

Microsoft introduced C# along with .NET Framework and Visual Studio, both of which were closed-source.

At the time, Microsoft had no open-source products.

Four years later, in 2004, a free and open-source project called Mono began, providing a cross-platform compiler and runtime environment for the C# programming language.

A decade later, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code (code editor), Roslyn (compiler), and the unified .NET platform (software framework), all of which support C# and are free, open-source, and cross-platform.

Mono also joined Microsoft but was not merged into .NET.

As of November 2022, the most recent stable version of the language is C# 11.0, which was released in 2022 in .NET 7.0.