Same... The principal engineer on this project also referred to me learning C# as my first exposure to a "real programming language"
After already being advanced in Python
And familiar with C, C++, JavaScript.
I think what he meant by "real" is it comes out of the box with proprietary windows components that aren't going to work anywhere else and don't have human readable code.
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