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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by GuestHNUser on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:01AM (#38022979)
Agreed. I feel C# is appropriately rated on HN and other programming forums. It has perfomant memory options that other GC languages lack, and great builtin packages to use. Overall, it is a good language.

My biggest issue with C# though is how badly exceptions are handled given that it is a statically typed langauge. I wish functions explicitly defined the exceptions it can throw since a minor package bump could add an exception without your compiler warning you that it isn't handled. I much prefer Rust, Go and Zig's error handling to C#'s since those kind of issues don't happen.

Re:Was Rust Worth It? by pjmlp on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:43AM (#38023232)
> It has perfomant memory options that other GC languages lack, and great builtin packages to use.

As clarification for the audience, it isn't the only GC enabled language with C and C++ like capabilities, in fact there are several examples since the early 1980's.

The adoption push for Java and scripting languages distorced the understanding of what was already available out there.