Programmers are in high demand in today’s digital age and their fluency in the coding language is invaluable. Choosing the right coding language is therefore essential. C# programming language is a relatively simple yet highly expressive .NET framework coding system that is used to create a wide variety of Windows, XML, database, client-server, and other software programs. It ranks among the most popular coding languages available today, and its benefits are widely recognized and too numerous to list them all here.

But like a musical instrument you are learning to play, C# code’s potential and basic advantages should be clearly present in the mind of the coder. After all, if you are planning on spending a lot of time and effort working with your instrument (in this case, C# code), you should have a good idea of why you chose it and not something else.

1. Portability

The first great thing about C# is that it is very similar to other familiar codes, such as Java, C, and C++. In fact, anyone who knows any of those other three codes will have no trouble at all learning C#.

Another important fact about C# is acknowledging that it’s made for .NET, which is integral to Windows, which is used by nearly everyone. Plus C# is all tied up with the .NET CLR (common language runtime), which is nothing more than the Windows-specific incarnation of CLI (common language infrastructure). And CLI is, of course, the international standard. Yes, C# will “go” just about anywhere.

2. Great Exceptions Handling

Anyone building a new software program will need some powerful and convenient exceptions handling tools in order to prevent chronic crashing or annoyingly frequent errors that will be visible to end-users.

Luckily for users of C#, such tools exist and are rather easy to use (check out https://stackify.com/csharp-catch-all-exceptions/ to learn the in-depth details about catching all exceptions with C#). But the jist is that you can catch first chance exceptions, .NET Framework exceptions, and all other exceptions (no exceptions to that claim) with tools like Retrace and Windows Event Viewer.

C# has no checked exceptions, which some like and some don’t (the opposite situation as compared to Java), but the good side to that is that it helps you to make versions easily and to keep things more scalable.

3. Easier “Memory Work”

With C# code, the programmer need not worry about stopping to release no-longer-needed memory, for the “garbage collector” takes care of that automatically. Your memory-address pointers can’t be set up with “unsafe blocks.” And any program containing “unsafe” coding will require special permissions to be used.

While some might regard the automation as a loss of control, it does make it impossible to end up with references to garbage-collected or random-block objects. The automation lets you focus on coding “live” objects so you don’t get bogged down in dealing with discarded memory. And this set-up also helps prevent memory leaks, which can be very dangerous given the cloud-based hacking of proprietary data that is so lamentably common these days.

4. Advanced Visual C# Tool

Besides the basic features of C#, its benefits also include things Visual C# provides: a terrific code editor, an integrated debugger, great user-interface designers, and a host of other helpful add-ons. And yet, with all of this, the entire C# package is still very easy to learn and use and can be used to develop numerous different app-types within the .NET Framework.

With the rise in demand for great programmers goes a rise in the competition. In order to survive in this competitive market, programmers need to learn all the tricks of the trade in order to be successful.