[magicalhippo]

> For me, a big part of Python’s productivity is its ecosystem of useful abstractions

Yeah the huge amount of libraries that are readily available and can be used right away without messing with a complex build system is a huge deal.

For me personally, C# is like the middle ground. A language I like much better than Python but also has a fairly rich ecosystem, and usually nuget makes including dependencies easy.

[silentpuck]

That’s a great point — C# really does hit a sweet spot between control and convenience.

I’ve never spent serious time with it, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about the tooling and the ecosystem.

Maybe one day I’ll give it a try — especially if I ever need something with more abstractions but less ceremony than Python.

Thanks for sharing your take — it’s always helpful to hear how others find their flow.

[magicalhippo]

I think when .Net 10 is released it's a good time to give it a whirl.

New in the upcoming release[1] will be the ability to run C# files as if they were scripts[2], ie without an explicit build step. Should lower the barrier to just fooling around.

I also like how they've gone away from the "everything must be an object" style ala Java, and allow top-level statements so it reads more like C/C++. It's just sugar, but for smaller programs that really makes a difference IMHO.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699174

[2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...

[silentpuck]

That actually sounds really cool. Being able to run C# like a script lowers the friction a lot. Thanks again.