alt Hacker NewsI like C#, it's how I make a living, but it's way too large today. I can program in valid C# and it looks like C or I can program in C# and it looks like a functional language or I can program in C# and it's looks all angle-brakety like C++.
The problem with that is everyone has an opinion on what good C# looks like.
For personal projects, I'll take a much simpler language any day.
C# has recreated the C++ dialect conundrum. For some it’s effectively an idempotent functional language with unfortunate failings of exhaustiveness, for others it’s Java ca 2009, for others it’s C++ but not quite.
Discipline, effort, linters, reviews, more discipline, more effort, retraining, discipline… and foot guns everywhere because so much of the adaptation has been a 95% solution. Personally I got everything C# promises even now when F# was dropped years ago and have found the interim pretty annoying.