When the heck did .NET took over????

I was looking at job vacancies and all of them all said to the point of must have exp in C# or ASP (for web programming).

When the heck did Microsoft took over??? I though C++ and PHP were reigning still.

Would it really have been so bad to make this a core language feature?

C is an older language that sits right next to assembly. Back then they counted every memory access and cycle. Even now, in frequently-called inner loops, such checks can slow things down dramatically.

C is a pleasant and portable assembler language, nothing more; if you want the safety you'll have to add it yourself. The problem isn't C, but rather people using it in inappropriate domains.

The standard library could desperately use an update though.