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csmpltn on March 31, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: C# 9 top-level programs and target-typed expressio...

> But yeah, show it to a c# newbie who is used to e.g. Python where "Hello world" is literally a one-liner and they might think "what a crapsack language, there's like 6 lines of overhead per 1 line of code, argh this is as bad as Java" - I've seen pretty much this reaction. Is it justified? From my POV, not at all. But I have seen that happen.

I don't understand why we keep optimising for this audience in the first place.

These are people that lack basic understanding, but also have no patience whatsoever, or any intentions to RTFM. Why are we bending the ecosystem for this audience?

SideburnsOfDoom on March 31, 2021 [–]

> don't understand why we keep optimising for this audience in the first place.

I wouldn't say "optimise for them". I would say "get them in the door", get them used to how things work in C#, and then drop the training wheels.

I take the point, it seems a marginal case though. IDK.

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