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December 19, 2022 54 mins

Summary

Mads Torgersen answers questions from listeners about C# 11.

Details

What features he regrets most; inclusion of discriminated unions; progress on roles and extensions; .NET LTS, STS, and C#; null handling and null references; warnings as errors; pressure to add more functional stuff; functions as first-class citizens; Mads is mad about delegate types - "delegate types should never have existed!"; meetings with Anders Hejlsberg; adding cloud programming constructs; reminiscing about async; evolutionary ideas; comparisons to Kotlin and Rust; balancing needs of developers with different levels of experience (Jon Skeet); managing the C# language design meetings (Jared Parsons).

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