alt Hacker NewsI don't really get this obsessive insistence of purging the language of null checks. (And "if(x is not null)" is not an improvement of any kind)
It feels like Microsoft just wants C# to be Python or whatever and the language is losing its value and identity. It's becoming bland, messy, and complicated for all the same reasons they keep increasing padding between UI elements. It's very "me too" and I'm becoming less and less interested in what I used to consider my native language.
I used to write any and all little throwaway programs and utilities in C#, but it just keeps getting more and more fussy. Like Python, or maybe java. Nowadays I reach for C++. It's more complicated, but at least it's stable and not trying to rip itself apart.
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> wants C# to be Python or whatever
Oh, how happy would I be if Python had a sliver of C# features. There's nothing like null-conditionals in Python, and there are many times I miss them
That as much is true, that is why stuff like minimal APIs and now aspire came to be, they want to cater to the JavaScript and Python folks, they have said as much in a couple of .NET podcast interviews.
Additinoally, I think they are becoming hostage that every year C# gets a new release, thus the team has to keep pushing features no matter what.
Imagine how C# will look a decade from now with this rythm.
Slowly I am starting to think it is not that bad, that most of the .NET projects that our agency does are still stuck on Framework.