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by radicalbyte 1253 days ago
BTW have you seen the new Node / Go style top-level statements in the .net 7? Microsoft have been doing some fantastic work, they've constantly been taking the best bits from other ecosystems.

In the right hands - so with strong progressive leadership - it wipes the floor with other ecosystems.
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HideousKojima 1253 days ago
Top-level statements are actually my single biggest beef with .NET 6 and 7, specifically because Microsoft decided to make them the default for any new console apps. And they didn't even add a flag for reverting to the old behavior until .NET 7, their guides for .NET 6 if you actually wanted a proper Program.cs file were literally "Generate is with .NET 5 and then up the target framework to .NET 6." This broke over a decades worth of guides/tutorials for beginners, right around the time I was trying to help a younger relative learn to code.
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neonsunset 1253 days ago
That is the goal. Change is likely to cause documentation and knowledge to become outdated.

Also changing the app back to old format is "Ctrl + ." -> "Change to Program.Main" away.

Developers would find a gripe with one new feature or another, even if it makes achieving a particular goal easier and less painful, simply because change is very uncomfortable to many.

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radicalbyte 1253 days ago
Yeah this! I write a lot of console apps and I absolutely love this change as it simplifies and removes a lot of cruft. Which means more people will make more console apps.
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