I didn't downvote, but IMO it's only half true: C# and the runtime really are excellent. But the C# library ecosystem is much smaller than the Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Python ecosystems (and even Go/Rust for a lot of things), and there are even quite a few commercial (paid for) libraries! This may not matter for a particular project, but for me it's significant enough to not make C# a universal recommendation.

Hopefully it changes now that C# is open source, but for now it's quite a big downside.

Look at the number of sweeping absolutes presenting their opinion as a global truth, with no supporting evidence presented.

Threads which start like that rarely end up contributing anything of value or convincing anyone who didn’t already agree with the author.

Because he say's a hammer is far better then a screwdriver, and Metal is far superior to wood.

Yeah I think my mistake is posting a response to a question about which language to use in a Python thread and not suggesting Python.

I work with Python every day and have for years and it's strengths and weaknesses are readily apparent to me but not to everyone apparently.

I don't see how this is controversial...

C# is a powerful language that is highly expressive, has a great type system, excellent compiler and great IDE, excellent async support, fast HTTP stack in standard library, blessed application development framework and object relational mapper, etc. Basically everything you could ask for in an ecosystem for developing a long-lived web application.

Python is a scripting language which is great for one-offs and has great data-science libraries but lacks static typing, poor IDE experience, slow runtime performance, poor portability because of it's reliance on FFI, poor long-term application maintenance track record, no blessed frameworks, competing and incompatible async solutions, etc.

Tbh I don't think there is much contest. Yes you can write a bunch of Python quickly that will do something but if you already know C# which is much better suited for the task it's clearly a better choice.