Is C# the new TypeScript? How Minimal APIs felt like home for a React Dev

The "Internship Shock" I’m a MERN stack developer at heart. Give me MongoDB, Express, React, and Node, and I can build anything. So, when I landed an internship as a .NET Developer, I was terrified. I had a specific mental image of .NET: ● Use huge, bulky IDEs (Visual Studio). ● Write 50 lines of configuration just to say "Hello World." ● Spend hours fighting with "Enterprise" patterns just to make a simple API. I thought I was walking into a legacy trap. I was wrong. While the enterprise world can be heavy, modern C# has evolved. With the introduction of Minimal APIs (available since .NET 6 and perfected in .NET 8/9), the barrier to entry has vanished. I was expecting to learn a foreign language. Instead, I found something that felt... oddly familiar. If you are a React/Node developer scared of the backend, let me show you why C# might actually be the "better TypeScript" you've been looking for. The "Hello World" Test Let's look at the entry point. In the MERN world, we use Express.js