Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET ecosystem

Re:Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages... by jjice on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:26AM (#25762289)

> but it just continues its quiet steady climb in ergonomics and performance year on year

I've seen people say one of Java's biggest benefits is being boring and staying consistent. I disagree. C# (sometimes all of .Net) consistently adds new features that keep the language feeling modern. Properties are a great example.

The big thing I'd love to see in C# now is sum types, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Re:Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages... by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:49AM (#25762612)

Their adding of the functional-friendly “record” type in C# 9, along with the “with” statement, was huge for me.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/exp...

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