It’s huge in the game dev world, with Unity and Godot. .net also had a reasonable community on mobile for a while thanks to Xamarin, but I cannot imagine that many people using it for new mobile projects in 2026 (outside of game dev I mean).

It’s a very decent language (I mean C#) and runtime, I wish it had more market share in the startup world.

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smlavine 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

An enterprise shop I co-op'd at was porting one of their apps from Xamarin to MAUI when I worked there, but certainly it doesn't have much mindshare (if any) amongst SE undergrads at my university.

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unethical_ban 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Someone I know who works with .net says that there is still no replacement for full Visual Studio for development, which is Windows only.

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rjbwork an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I used to think this. Hopped to rider 4 years ago and haven't missed it except for .sqlproj development.

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dgellow 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Rider is the replacement, unless they are doing really specific (like WinUI2/UWP)

	▲	Rohansi 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		VS Code is also manageable. Or the CLI tools, if that's your thing. Rider is definitely the most equivalent to full Visual Studio though.

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Rohansi 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unity is still using Mono these days which is missing basically all of the C# and .NET improvements from the past... 10 years now?

Godot was using Mono too but has since switched to .NET in version 4.

Still a great language and I hope Unity can hit their target to switch to .NET soon!

	▲	dgellow 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Damn, I assumed they had switched to .net core, I cannot believe they are still stuck on mono. Thanks for the correction