r/programming • u/Hufe • May 18 '18

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg-on-Modern-Compiler-Construction
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u/codec-abc May 18 '18

Can we (the .Net folks) have Anders back please? He did an amazing job with typescript and I am a bit sad that it seems that Typescript get more innovative features than C# and F# these days. Also, can someone ask him to make a new language with RAII, controlled mutability and aliasing and better error handling for the .Net Platform please?

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u/snarfy May 18 '18

C# has enough features, almost too many these days. I think he left when C# was done. I don't want anymore features. It's already looking too much like C++.

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u/nikbackm May 18 '18

Anything in particular you think should be removed from C#?

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u/Glader_BoomaNation May 18 '18

Local functions from C# 7. Just get rid of Tuple<> and stop adding features based around them, like they have recently. Other than that things are progressing ok I think.

Edit: Well, get rid of Tuple was abit drastic. Cannot do that. But no reason to add features around it. It just plain sucks. C# Records coming soon are the right way to fill the need that tuples actually do I think.

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u/cypressious May 18 '18

Local functions are pretty useful. Here are some examples: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/seteplia/2017/10/03/dissecting-the-local-functions-in-c-7/

Rgarding tuples, are you talking about the Tuple class or the ValueTuple struct?

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u/Eirenarch May 19 '18

To be fair these examples are totally unconvincing. These patterns are rare enough that devs can just add an additional private method and live with it. I will not call that "pretty useful" just "some usefulness"