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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by munificent on Monday May 02, 2022 @04:06PM (#31240201)
Related: I did a lot of WinForms programming in C# when I was a tools programmer at EA and I don't know if I've ever been as productive as during that time. The whole API was really well thought out, Visual Studio was fast, C# was a beautiful language.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by gwbas1c on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:17PM (#31241042)
> C# was a beautiful language

It still is. (And Blazor is pretty cool, too.)

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by munificent on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:15PM (#31241715)
Yes, definitely! I put it in the past tense only because I don't use it these days.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by arwhatever on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:47AM (#31245432)
Every UI technology is unbearably cumbersome after starting my career in WinForms.
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