[cyberax]

"Short-lived"? LINQ is very much alive in the C# ecosystem.

And FROM-first syntax absolutely makes more sense, regardless of autocomplete. You should put the "what I need to select" after the "what I'm selecting from", in general.

[yarg]

LINQ yes, but they killed off the component not long after introducing it.

[jiggawatts]

It was replaced by Entity Framework.

[BartjeD]

Linq to sql still lives