dotnet/csharplang

The official repo for the design of the C# programming language.

Yair Halberstadt

@YairHalberstadt

I guess shouldn't have joined Google if I don't like Go :-)

Maybe I'll fall in love with it over time, but initial impressions is: this isn't a terrible language, but it's a pretty pathetic language - it feels like a step backwards 30 years in language evolution.

Michał Zegan

@webczat

but you can't deny it's very readable :) that was my first impression of it even if I wouldn't want to learn it because reasons.

Yair Halberstadt

@YairHalberstadt

Is it more readable than C#/Java?

I don't see how?

Michał Zegan

@webczat

I was not comparing. I just stated the fact that it is very readable from the perspective of me who knew/knows more than one language but never learned go. including that I have never seen things like language with multiple return values etc.

I just randomly went into sources of boulder and started to read, because I was playing with the acme protocol (letsencrypt in case you don't know what I am talking about).

it's not, however, a comparison to java/c# because I have never tried to read java/c# when not knowing them previously by any means. also my programming knowledge when I was learning java for the first time was way smaller

and java/c# are also amongs the more readable ones. and, surprisingly to me, php. lol

Yair Halberstadt

@YairHalberstadt

I find list.Select(x => x * x).Where(x < 100) far more readable than:

updated := []int {}
for _, v in range list {
    squared = v * v
    if squared < 100 {
        updated = append(updated, squared)
    }
}

Michał Zegan

@webczat

although I have read less php than java/c#

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

@YairHalberstadt I can only agree 😀

Michał Zegan

@webczat

well it's definitely longer. but for someone not used to linq or similar syntax like java streams... not sure

I don't think this is natural for someone who has never seen such a thing in his life. but these things are hard to tell, my first lang was pascal. if it were c# I could tell

but then I was 9 when I learned pascal. if I was 9 now and learning c# as a first lang, it would be interesting.

and I learned java far before c#, and that was way before lambdas existed there

well it was java6

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

But to be fair I assume, the equiliant in csharp is:

var updated = new List<int>();
foreach(var v in list) {
    var squared = v * v;
    if (squared < 100) {
        updated.Add(squared);
    }
}

Michał Zegan

@webczat

well or linq.

this was the point

Yair Halberstadt

@YairHalberstadt

Yes, but then they're identically readable so nothing to compare
The argument can only be Go is more readable because you can't use linq and have to write it out in full. To which I strongly disagree

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

things like []int {} look weird at least to me

Michał Zegan

@webczat

well, still note I was not comparing, just stating it without relation to other languages.

still it matters considering it's considerably different in some respects from all other languages I know. things like methods declared out of types, structural typing/interfaces, multiple return values, etc.

at least what happens and why was easy for me

definitely easier than in things like c/c++ that I am still confronted with.

but most things are easier than that

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

C is very easy

but very limited, too

Michał Zegan

@webczat

well, before probably java I was afraid of/could not easily read foreign code.

the first language where I tried and succeeded in that, like reading/digging into foreign code including standard libs, was java for me

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

In C++ I love templates and constexpr functions

Michał Zegan

@webczat

mhm sure.

templates are often the most unreadable thing ever invented. well at least when someone is doing metaprogramming

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

yes, sometimes

Michał Zegan

@webczat

or things like using iterator tags or... eh I had some nice code fragment like this, template usage, not writing one

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

or they can at least create really large diagnostics

Michał Zegan

@webczat

oh that. yeah

the thing is they are not themselves compiled, they live in headers, it's suddenly... so weird :) you cannot even theoretically interface it with any other programming language

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

but the equals example we had you can write in C++ really easily

Michał Zegan

@webczat

and now it's normal functions in cpp files, but these go in headers. mess

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

https://godbolt.org/z/8anG4f1W4

Michał Zegan

@webczat

I don't consider that easy, I don't know c++20 concepts although I realize what this probably is, and generally ... nooo!

maybe I am in a bad mood to interpret c++ :)

also a static equals you proposed is something you can write easily using the equality comparer

ahh I think the unreadable part I made I was talking about was something like static_asserting type characteristics. then I pasted it to few people to show them how amazing c++ is <sarcasm>

Bernd Baumanns

@bernd5

static_asserts have to be type dependent - so you see often something like static_assert(alwaysFalse<T>::value, "Foo") - it looks weird, I agree

Michał Zegan

@webczat

noo mine was far more complex and not always false

not sure what it was, likely checking for enums. as in pre concept

I don't have the relevant code anymore

that was in a function template

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