<i>Microsoft's C# has always been popular language thanks to .NET developers, but this year it has seen something of a surge in popularity. Tiobe Software CEO Paul Jansen says C# is "by far the most likely candidate" to be named its programming language of the year, given to the language that's seen the highest increased in ratings in a given year.</i><p>Single binary executables in .Net 6.0 that run cross platform are the killer feature. The target machine does not need any supporting shared libs. That and the speed improvements.