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all modern languages are basically becoming functional languages, slowly. C# is essentially riding the mainstream wave, trickling down features as the average d

by shados 10y ago

all modern languages are basically becoming functional languages, slowly. C# is essentially riding the mainstream wave, trickling down features as the average developer gets familiar with the existing ones.

naasking 10y ago
I think you've got it backwards. C# was one of the principle drivers of this wave.
- oblio 10y ago
  Plus it was the first truly mainstream language to have async/await.
  - rpeden 10y ago
    To be fair, I think VB.NET got async and await at the same time C# did. Lambdas, too.
  - shados 10y ago
    async/await are ways to take functional constructs and make them imperative. So not really relevant in this case (and are actually the reverse)
- shados 10y ago
  No, not backward, maybe my wording was simply ambiguous. When I say "riding the wave", what I mean is that they are adding functional features as the regular OOP/imperative programmers in the mainstream are done "accepting" the previous ones they added, as opposed to adding everything in one shot and have people get overwhelmed. I didn't mean they were following a wave or anything. Analogies are hard.