Yeah, I totally get where you’re coming from. I think it depends on what you mean by ‘efficient.’ If we’re talking about runtime performance and memory management, C# and .NET are generally very efficient: JIT compilation, span/memory optimisations, and the garbage collector all make it competitive with Java in most workloads. Where I agree with you is in developer efficiency: .NET projects can definitely get heavy with boilerplate, especially in enterprise setups with lots of layers, dependency injection, and config-heavy patterns. That’s not necessarily a language issue, but more a combination of the framework conventions, Microsoft’s enterprise guidance, and patterns like MVC/WebAPI scaffolding.