This is a guest blog post by Sam Cox. Sam is the Co-Founder & CTO of Tracebit.<\/p>\n
When we started building Tracebit \u2013 a B2B SaaS security product \u2013 one of my key early decisions was to pick a programming language. While many startups gravitate toward Python, TypeScript, Golang, or Rust, I went a different way: C#.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve blogged<\/a> quite a bit about this decision before and I wanted to share a few highlights here.<\/p>\n I think a stack which lets you spend time on what actually matters is the core of a great developer experience. I wanted:<\/p>\n an expressive, fully-featured language which would let us quickly test and refine ideas C# has allowed us to be highly productive from the earliest days and it feels like a really solid foundation to build on.<\/p>\n I was pleasantly surprised to find that .NET is now fully open source and MIT-licensed. The cross-platform support lets us develop on MacBooks, and deploy to Linux containers on ARM cores. Microsoft\u2019s \u201cchiseled\u201d container images<\/a> are a nice touch too, giving us a lean deployment option which minimizes CVE management.<\/p>\n \nStack Overflow Developer Survey 2024<\/em><\/p>\n C# consistently ranks as a highly popular programming language, though perhaps without generating the buzz that some other languages might \u2013 especially among startups! This established presence gives us real advantages:<\/p>\n A great talent pool from which to hire The .NET ecosystem comes with quality libraries for just about everything we\u2019ve needed. Along with the usual suspects (collections, JSON processing, etc), Entity Framework<\/a> and ASP.NET<\/a> stand out as excellent frameworks in which to build.<\/p>\n This has been particularly valuable for us as a security product. We have high standards for dependencies, and having so many trusted and well-maintained components available has saved us a lot of time!<\/p>\n C# as a language has many nice features, such as LINQ, pattern-matching, anonymous functions, primary constructors and null-coalescing operators that make it both expressive and succinct. I\u2019ve honestly found it a pleasure to read and write.<\/p>\n When it comes to the type system, I think C# has found a really nice balance \u2013 it\u2019s powerful without feeling overly complex. I particularly like the support for generics, record types, and reflection.<\/p>\n The development ecosystem offers some excellent tools:<\/p>\n Powerful IDEs with great debugging and refactoring support These make it a joy to work with the language, and help avoid nasty surprises in production.<\/p>\n While performance wasn\u2019t our main reason for choosing C#, it\u2019s certainly a nice advantage. It\u2019s clearly a priority for the .NET team and each release brings meaningful performance improvements<\/a>. We process a lot of data on behalf of our customers and I\u2019ve been very impressed by the throughput we\u2019ve been able to achieve with simple and idiomatic C# \u2013 while still offering many options to optimize hot code paths if necessary.<\/p>\n After thousands of commits and over 100,000 lines of code, I\u2019m very happy with our choice. We\u2019ve brought on team members who had never used C# before, and everyone\u2019s become productive surprisingly quickly \u2013 shipping code to production on their first day.<\/p>\n No programming language is perfect for every situation, and what works for us might not work for everyone. But C# has been a key part of Tracebit\u2019s success so far. If you\u2019ve overlooked C# based on outdated perceptions (like I almost did), I\u2019d definitely recommend taking a closer look!<\/p>\n The post Why we built our startup in C#<\/a> appeared first on .NET Blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a guest blog post by Sam Cox. Sam is the Co-Founder & CTO of Tracebit. 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\nthe assurance offered by static types when maintaining and refactoring code
\na stable platform that would still work well as our team and codebase grew<\/p>\nModern, Open & Cross-Platform<\/h2>\n
Popularity<\/h2>\n
\nPlenty of world-class libraries at our fingertips
\nLots of documentation and examples when needed
\nWell-traveled paths with fewer unexpected roadblocks<\/p>\nRich Standard Library<\/h2>\n
Expressive language features<\/h2>\n\n
Great Tooling<\/h2>\n
\nGreat static analyzers that will often suggest fixes automatically
\nSophisticated tooling for memory profiling and runtime diagnostics<\/p>\nIt\u2019s Fast<\/h2>\n\n
How It\u2019s Going<\/h2>\n