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by m_fayer 3349 days ago
In addition to the functional stuff, C# has a lot of syntactic sugar that I wouldn't associate with a "boring" language.

If you aggressively use all the syntactic sugar from the latest version of C# and compare that to similarly up-to-date Java code, they'll be worlds apart. The C# will look terse, and to more conservative programmers, rather weird.
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Faark 3349 days ago
Not to mention they still have/invent multiple ways to do the same. The old Tuple<>, anonymous types and new ValueTuples are pretty much different attempts/iterations to achieve a similar goal. I wonder if/how they will unify them or phase some of them out.

Btw, i kinda like java's Anonymous Classes. Do we know any reason for C# not to adopt this as well?

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pikzen 3349 days ago
>Do we know any reason for C# not to adopt this as well?

Because delegates are a much easier way of dealing with things? Especially with lambda functions. Unless you're talking about the java pattern of passing an entire anonymous class for, let's say, a formatter or something. The reason for C# not to adopt that seems to be that:

- It's so terribly awful, who in his right mind is happy to implement yet another anonymous class? - API design is different and .NET manages to avoid the need of those quite gracefully.

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douche 3349 days ago
There is some crap like that still kicking around. Why you need to create a Comparator class to provide a single function for sorting or filtering out duplicate items is silly, when a Func <T, bool> lambda would work? Because it's the old way of doing things, back in the 1/2 era, when delegates didn't have all the syntax sugar to make them painless.
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emodendroket 3349 days ago
> I wonder if/how they will unify them or phase some of them out.

They pretty much never phase anything out because they're serious about backwards compatibility (which frankly I consider refreshing in this world). I mean they've even said at some point like "yeah, the delegates are unfortunate because they're just a more awkward syntax for what the lambda functions do but we're not going to get rid of them because people have used them."

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