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using UnityEngine;

Is the second most used 'using' that's non-Microsoft (after Nunit). Shows how important Unity is for C# take up. And presumably most people using Unity to write games are not going to be sticking their code on GitHub either so this must be a fraction of the real use.

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IT's important to open source C# take-up, but I'd wager the vast majority of C# usage is closed-source shops.

c# just isn't favoured by hobbyists except for game-programming. But in business world (at least from my UK perspective) where nothing comes close to github, c# still seems as healthy as ever and that doesn't depend on unity at all.

Oh yes for sure, but that's always been there. .NET has always been used widely for business internal stuff and that's what kept it alive. But the recent C# renaissance seems to be about app building stuff like Xamarin or Unity.

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