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G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

23 pointsby mashallyyesterday at 10:39 PM6 commentsview on HN

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chabad360today at 6:06 AM

While the language itself doesn't seem very interesting (which is perhaps the point). The idea of building a new language on top of the CLR runtime feels very wise. Instead of a new language suffering from a lack of ecosystem, you get everything else that's already built, even in other (CLR-based) languages. This does leave me wondering what the trade off is. Do you sacrifice any potential language features for CLR compatibility? Or provided you can get it compile, it will run?

Also, are there other language ecosystems with a similar capability?

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cromkatoday at 8:09 AM

I have a strong feeling that no new languages will get adopted at all, now that it's important for AI to be proficient in speaking them.

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grandpoobahtoday at 7:40 AM

Not really anything here which distinguishes it from c#?