7 Things about C#: The Platform

C# runs on .NET, a cross-platform, managed, and open-source environment. The following 7 features give you an overview of this platform and explains a few of it’s more notable features. When completed, you’ll have a better understanding of .NET, its benefits, and how C# fits in.

The C# Platform

1 — Is a general-purpose language

As a general purpose language, C# is a multi-use tool that you can use on a wide variety of applications. I’ve personally used it to build apps for the cloud, desktop, mobile, server, and web. In more recent scenarios, people use C# for AI in the areas of chatbots, neural nets, machine learning, and natural language processing. As WebAssembly has upset JavaScript’s predominance of the browser, you can now write browser-based applications with C# via a new .NET technology known as Blazor. You can also build HTTP APIs for any developer from any other language and platform to use.

C# can be used to build many different types of applications.

Speaking about other languages, the next section discusses .NET’s multi-language support.

2 — One of many .NET languages