Comment by twisteriffic

> C# similarly has old warts that are discouraged now. .NET Framework is a great example (completely different from modern c#, which used to be called "dotnet core"). WPF and MAUI are also examples. Or when "dynamic" was used as a type escape hatch before the type system advanced to not need it. ASP being incompatible with ASP.NET, the list goes on.

Almost all of this is incorrect or comparing apples to oranges.

.net framework and .net core are runtime and standard library impl, not languages. C# is a language that can target either runtime or both. Framework is still supported today, and you can still use most modern C# language features in a project targeting it. WPF and Maui are both still supported and widely used. ASP predates .net - c# was never a supported language in it. ASP.net core has largely replaced ASP.net, but it's again a library and framework, not a language feature.

Dynamic in c# and the dlr are definitely not widely used because it's both difficult to use safely and doesn't fit well with the dominant paradigm of the language. If you're looking for STD lib warts binaryserializer would have been an excellent example.