Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime
by zarlo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:52PM
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For me, I use both languages. But there's a lot of things which are only like a couple lines or very easy to do in .NET but to do it in Go is a lot of work.
Some example.
Open API document generation using type handlers doing this in go was a pain in .net is comes out of the box.
A lot of people underestimate the power of extension methods.
.nets metadata system is compiled time safe where Go is not and this has burnt me a lot.
I really like go for command line tools Small binary sizes I lovely.
go's standard library is significantly more hackable than .nets there have been a few things where I've ended up using Go because to do it in .net would require me maintaining a fork of the standard library.
Go makes composing data insanely simple. where in .NET you can have an equivalency but it will be done via interfaces.
Go's Dark Type System is both great and really annoying.
C#'s stricter type system when it comes to interfaces can be really handy as that can be used as metadata to change how data is processed and enforce compile time checks.
Some example.
Open API document generation using type handlers doing this in go was a pain in .net is comes out of the box.
A lot of people underestimate the power of extension methods.
.nets metadata system is compiled time safe where Go is not and this has burnt me a lot.
I really like go for command line tools Small binary sizes I lovely.
go's standard library is significantly more hackable than .nets there have been a few things where I've ended up using Go because to do it in .net would require me maintaining a fork of the standard library.
Go makes composing data insanely simple. where in .NET you can have an equivalency but it will be done via interfaces.
Go's Dark Type System is both great and really annoying.
C#'s stricter type system when it comes to interfaces can be really handy as that can be used as metadata to change how data is processed and enforce compile time checks.