Was mulling over the C#/Java situation & couldn't find a compelling reason to use C# other than for WhiteBox Testing. It is slaved to M$ OS & ecosystem, meaning that any hardware used as a test fixture is going to have 40G of bloatware & 1000 background services running which doesn't seem efficient or advisable when consistent results are paramount.
Jumping on the web & AutomationPanda.com seems to come to the same conclusion - though has a preference of Python, probably due to it being a little more lightweight. I just can't get with the syntax/format marriage. I'm not a fan of formatting being a part of syntax. I suppose it forces some standardization of coding styles, but who says that standard is the best approach.
Source: https://automationpanda.com/2017/01/21/the-best-programming-language-for-test-automation/
Below, I rated each point for a few popular languages:
| Python | Java | JavaScript | C# | C/C++ | Perl | |
| Usability | awesome | good | good | good | terrible | poor |
| Elegance | awesome | good | okay | good | poor | poor |
| Available Test Frameworks | awesome | awesome | awesome | good | okay | poor |
| Available Packages | awesome | awesome | okay | good | good | good |
| Powerful Command Line | awesome | good | good | okay | poor | okay |
| Easy Build Integration | good | good | good | good | poor | poor |
| IDE Support | good | awesome | good | good | okay | terrible |
| Industry Adoption | awesome | awesome | awesome | good | terrible | terrible |
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