{"id":1003,"date":"2013-01-03T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2013\/01\/03\/c-is-the-language-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:36:13","slug":"c-is-the-language-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/c-is-the-language-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"C# is the \u201cLanguage of the Year\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a great way to start a new year: the PYPL index has named C# the language of the year<\/a>. This index focuses on the leading indicator of learning a language. It’s nice to see that there’s been increased interest in C# over the past year. In the spirit of learning something new, here’s what we suggest you check out if you’re looking to learn a new C# trick.<\/p>\n

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  1. Learn to program with Async. <\/b>Async is finally unleashing the power of multicore hardware. Where I\/O is involved, we expect almost all new platform APIs to be exposed as async versions. This new language capability<\/a> ensures that you can quickly build highly scalable<\/a> and highly responsive<\/a> apps for the cloud and devices.

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  2. Learn to build a Windows Store App.<\/b> All of our favorite Windows Store apps were written with C# – yours can be too<\/a>. Many of the new Windows APIs are based on WinRT<\/a>, which means that all of these new APIs are amazing with C#. To top it off, you can use XAML<\/a> or DirectX<\/a>. \n<\/li>\n
  3. Learn to build (or use) cross-platform libraries.<\/b> .NET is now integral to every platform Microsoft builds. And with so many platforms to target, we’ve made it easy to write portable libraries<\/a> so you can distribute your binary once for all of them. Many of these libraries are available on NuGet<\/a> such as Json.NET<\/a>. Not to mention that your C# code also works on billions of non-Microsoft devices thanks to tools from Xamarin<\/a>. \n<\/li>\n
  4. Learn about the performance advantages of .NET.<\/b> One of the best aspects of programming with C# is that your apps get faster by just upgrading to the latest version of Windows or .NET Framework. With Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 and .NET Framework 4.5 your app can see significant improvements in garbage collection<\/a> and startup time<\/a>. Bing saw some amazing performance wins<\/a> from .NET too. \n<\/li>\n
  5. Learn about cool libraries that build on top of C#.<\/b> What makes C# so cool is that our innovations in the language have inspired new programming patterns and libraries. LINQ is awesome and it’s led to the Reactive Extensions (Rx)<\/a>. Just spend some time understanding how to use Rx and you’ll take your programming game to a new level.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What new C# skill would you recommend everyone learn? Share your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    It’s a great way to start a new year: the PYPL index has named C# the language of the year. This index focuses on the leading indicator of learning a language. It’s nice to see that there’s been increased interest in C# over the past year. In the spirit of learning something new, here’s what […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}