History of C#
C# was developed by Microsoft as part of its .NET initiative in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The language was designed to be a modern, simple, and powerful programming language that could compete with Java and other popular languages.
Key milestones in C# history:
- 1999: Development started by Anders Hejlsberg and his team at Microsoft.
- 2000: C# was officially announced to the public at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
- 2002: C# 1.0 was released with the first version of the .NET Framework.
- 2005: C# 2.0 introduced generics, nullable types, and iterators.
- 2010: C# 4.0 added dynamic binding, named and optional arguments.
- 2015: C# 6.0 brought improvements like string interpolation and null-conditional operators.
- 2020: Latest versions (C# 8.0, 9.0, 10.0) introduced features like nullable reference types, records, and pattern matching.
Did you know? Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C#, also developed Turbo Pascal and was a key architect of Delphi.
Today, C# is one of the most popular programming languages worldwide, powering applications from desktop software to cloud services and even game development using the Unity engine.