Every facet of Microsoft seems to lack style. Every official/affiliated blog is ugly and inconsistent. C# looks ugly to me. Windows is fugly. Their fonts are horrid. It's to be expected
But C# is extremely beautiful, you can read and write it like a novel.
Segoe UI is also not the worst font. I give it a 7/10.
I find the title case ugly, not a fan of semicolons, nor the new keyword. Guess I'm too used to Kotlin and Linux/Mac fonts
It’s a conjunction of all 3 things.
Seriously? It's basically Microsoft-flavoured Java, and has much of the same horrid verboseness and architecture-astronaut overcomplexity.
K&R, early UNIX style, BSD is what I find "extremely beautiful".
I see/hear jokes often that it's Microsoft Java, and yeah definitely granted that it comes from the same origins, but it's got some of the greatest tools I've worked with, best documentation, and best support I've seen. Anytime I've asked myself "Can I do this with C#?", the only times the answer has been "no" is when looking for a C++ constexpr equivalent (closest you get is build-time code-gen, which ain't half bad), or discriminated unions (inexplicably).
I'm convinced that anyone who complains about C# has never used it.
While MS isn't utterly technically bereft obviously, and they had some correct choices like backward compatibility and usability relative to imbeciles like IBM, just look at the botched execution of Win8, their security disasters, and generally superior products that got nudged out by beta-ware quality releases.