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Re:Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Soft... by ok123456 on Sunday October 16, 2022 @02:48PM (#33226116)
Problem is the mono C# compiler is several years behind Roslyn in terms of features. It's pretty much a non-starter if you don't have nullable types in 2022.
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Re:Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Soft... by Jtsummers on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:08PM (#33226295)
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

Works fine on non-Windows systems (well, Linux and macOS at least) IME and isn't several years behind.

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Re:Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Soft... by hardware2win on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:06AM (#33230560)
Dont use Mono

Also I think you are giving nullable ref types too much credit

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Re:Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Soft... by ok123456 on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:59AM (#33233590)
I don't think you're giving them enough credit.

Having the type system be able to tell you that you may have a null reference exception in a complicated code base is magic. I've inherited bad code bases and refactored them to use nullable references and watched lots of bugs fall out.

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Re:Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Soft... by hardware2win on Monday October 17, 2022 @04:04PM (#33238838)
I'd rather use Result<T> everywhere
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