alt Hacker NewsI can appreciate the steady syntactic sugar that c# has been introducing these past years, they never feel like an abrupt departure from the consistency throughout. I often think that this is what java could have been if it hadn't been mangled by oracle's influence, unfortunately as much I like java it's pretty obvious that different parts have been designed by disjointed committee members focused on just one thing.
This started long before Oracle and the favouring of verbose, ritualistic boiler code was set back at Sun. James Gosling has been staunchly against overloading operators, properties and value types (almost out of spite from Microsoft's success with providing this in C#), the aftermath of which the language and run-time still struggle today and forever will. It's unfortunate that the original inventor, while a brilliant programmer himself, thought so little of others that such features were not to be included, because other programmers might mess up their use.