Re:Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
by jiggawatts on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @07:18PM
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I’m in the same boat, and while
I love the concepts behind Rust I’m not a fan of the syntax.
What I’d love to see is a hybrid between C# and Rust that has the capabilities of both languages in “layers”.
So business logic would be written in a simple GC variant of the language that feels like C# but the underlying standard library and low-level packages could use Rust-like semantics.
This is already the direction that C# is moving in: it’s getting more and more features related to “ref” and other low-level primitives.
Sadly Rust and C# have fundamental incompatibilities such as different string encodings, so they can’t be directly merged.
What I’d love to see is a hybrid between C# and Rust that has the capabilities of both languages in “layers”.
So business logic would be written in a simple GC variant of the language that feels like C# but the underlying standard library and low-level packages could use Rust-like semantics.
This is already the direction that C# is moving in: it’s getting more and more features related to “ref” and other low-level primitives.
Sadly Rust and C# have fundamental incompatibilities such as different string encodings, so they can’t be directly merged.