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by HeavyStorm 13 days ago
Looks nice, congratulations.

I feel like we've done full circle. Languages are back to being (mostly) procedural. I'm not sure I like it, but it seems that this is what people prefer.

Personally, I'd rather see something like dependant types on a dotnet language. An addition, not just a simplification.
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demosthanos 13 days ago
> I feel like we've done full circle. Languages are back to being (mostly) procedural. I'm not sure I like it, but it seems that this is what people prefer.

Is this an actual shift, or is this just what happens when LLMs make it possible for anyone to build a language quickly?

This one feels less like someone thought carefully about what semantics they wanted to have and more like someone without a lot of familiarity with the design space of programming languages decided to build one that had all their favorite features from the languages that they already know:

> G# brings Go-, Kotlin-, and Swift-style ergonomics — packages, func, data class, nullable handling with if let, structured concurrency with scope — to the .NET runtime.

Nothing wrong with that at all, I love to see the increased interest in language design, but I wouldn't read a shift in preferences into this wave of PLs. It's a shift in who is writing PLs, not a shift in preferences.

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