• starman@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    it has almost run out of features to steal

    There is still one big feature, waiting to be added to C#. Discriminated unions. Come on Microsoft, it can’t be that hard to implement

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      9 months ago

      That’s true. You can kind of do it Scala style with an interfaces and some classes, but with two big drawbacks: no exhaustiveness checking, and no “object” syntax for defining singleton classes. They seem to be heading in that direction though.