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Next version of Microsoft’s software development platform brings improvements for JIT compilation, WebAssembly, C#, and F#.
New version of the open-source replacement for Microsoft Silverlight also brings support for .NET 10 and C# 14.
C# saw the largest increase in ranking in the index year over year, while Java held steady, C and C++ swapped positions, R and Perl rose, and Go and Ruby faded.
Microsoft recommends that C# developers use GitHub Copilot Chat for code suggestions and inline completions instead.
Microsoft language F# 10 includes long-sought #warnon and #nowarn directives to enable and disable warnings, among other improvements.
Productivity and performance enhancements also detailed in latest release of the .NET programming language.
Touted as an “AI-native intelligent development environment,” Visual Studio 2026 features performance and user experience improvements in addition to AI-powered debugging, profiling, and more.
Application platform update brings enhancements for AI agent development, cryptography, runtime performance, and the C# and F# programming languages.
Microsoft’s fast-growing language for .NET may be poised to overtake Java in popularity for the first time, Tiobe said.
Microsoft’s cloud-native, distributed application development tool kit drops .NET from its name and embraces, well, everything.