7 learnings from Anders Hejlsberg: The architect behind C# and TypeScript
Any system that needs to scale across teams requires a shift from personal taste to shared outcomes. The goal stops being code that looks the way you would write it, and starts being code that many people can understand, maintain, and evolve together. C# did not emerge from a clean-slate ideal. It emerged from conflicting demands. Visual Basic developers wanted approachability, C++ developers wanted power, and Windows demanded pragmatism.
The result was not theoretical purity. It was a language that enough people could use effectively.
Languages do not succeed because they are perfectly designed. They succeed because they accommodate the way teams actually work