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Re: .NET 8

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Post by shortstuffsushi »

Adding spreading is neat, but curious why they chose to go the two dot route instead of three. It's been a while since I've worked in C#, so I can't remember if there are any reserved implications of three dots.

Re: .NET 8

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Post by xeromal »

Tangentially related but I was impressed with .NET recently. I was recently tasked with tackling an extremely old and proprietary video format that embedded GPS, video, audio, and several other components. The files were huge and just a mess to understand and I eventually found an old player application that was also proprietary.

I decompiled it into C# and stripped the player aspect out of it leaving the code the peeled back the container and allowed me to export MP4 and other pieces. After getting to build into a console application on windows on .net 4 I think I decided to give it a go to upgrade it enough to compile AND run on linux. I upgraded 2x and then updated around 10-15 lines of code that no longer compiled. It was extremely easy considering there were 1000s of lines of code to parse this format. I finally got it running on linux and it only took about a day of full effort. Pretty crazy considering the code I was running was over 10 years old.

Re: .NET 8

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Post by rjbwork »

The new interceptors in C# 12 look pretty wild. Will have to play around with them. Was hoping for more of a PostSharp style AOP framework, and this doesn't appear to be that.

Re: .NET 8

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Post by klauserc »

Apart from the very welcome QoL features in C# 12 (collection literals, primary constructors for ordinary classes), the "Aspire" announcement is very interesting. Haven't decided yet if its a good thing or too much "magic".

Re: .NET 8

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Post by financltravsty »

Lots of very cool stuff here (AOT, Aspire, etc.).

.NET has been held down by the image of its early days, but it has become a pure joy to work with recently. The improvements in tooling and ergonomics have made it a replacement for Go in our org (we migrated from .NET Core 3.1 to Go back to .NET 6 recently).

Re: .NET 8

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #3

Adding spreading is neat, but curious why they chose to go the two dot route instead of three. It's been a while since I've worked in C#, so I can't remember if there are any reserved implications of three dots.

I think 3 dots is the varargs syntax so they didn't want to collide
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