I’m sure Microsoft’s strategy department would disagree with you. As a c# devotee - I get that you’re upset. And you may want to update your priors on where c# sits in Microsoft’s current world. But I think it’s a mistake to imagine this isn’t a well reasoned decision.
They can disagree if they want but as a career-long Microsoft developer they can't fool me that easily. I'm not even complaining, I'm just stating a fact that high-level steering decisions like this are made in Teams meetings between Microsoft employees, not in open discussion with the community. It's the same in .NET, which is a very open source project whose highest-level decisions are, nonetheless, made in Teams meetings between Microsoft employees and then announced to the public. I'm fine with this but let's not kid ourselves about it.
That said, I must have misstated my opinion if it seems like I didn't think they have a good reason. This is Anders Hejlsberg. The guy is a genius; he definitely has a good reason. They just didn't say what it is in this blog post (but did elsewhere in a podcast video linked in the HN thread).
