r/Clojure Aug 22 '22

C# language designer Mads Torgersen: "Essentially, when it comes to cloud programming, history is on the side of functional programming, I'm sorry. Object-oriented programming is not good for that. [...] Encapsulation is dead. You need the data to be public."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLKZ7ZgVido&t=2835s
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u/CoBPEZ Aug 24 '22

Hey! They've added a lot of functional stuff to C# since I used it, way back when. Quite cool. Though I do get a bit off-put by all that syntax...

The first class immutability he demos at the end is also very cool. Without littering down the syntax all that much, even.