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The .NET ecosystem is a lot more mature than Rust's, there is no arguing that. As for code cleanliness, though, it's debatable. Rust has ADTs, Option, exhaustiv

The .NET ecosystem is a lot more mature than Rust's, there is no arguing that. As for code cleanliness, though, it's debatable. Rust has ADTs, Option, exhaustive pattern matching, Option and Result. C# doesn't.

smt88 8y ago
C# has a 3rd party Option lib that works well. I use it heavily. F# is probably a better competitor to Rust than C# though.
- starik36 8y ago
  Which Option lib is that?
  - smt88 8y ago
    https://github.com/nlkl/Optional https://github.com/nlkl/Optional
nikofeyn 8y ago
.net is not equal to c#. f# has all of that and a much cleaner syntax than rust.
- bsaul 8y ago
  isn’t f# a second class citizen in .net core ? last time i checked you still needed to install mono to get some sort of autocompletion on vscode. And all the official tutorials were still in C# only.
  - bonesss 8y ago
    F# is a "second class citizen" for all .Net tooling from MS, as C# is more popular. Luckily it is a first class citizen in language capabilities, and is years ahead of C# on that front ;) Ionide doesn't seem to require mono, ATM, for tooling in VS Code. VS Community Edition on the mac has autocomplete, full F# support (better than VS2017 in some areas), I think that might be cross-platform too (it might want Mono installed for other reasons, though). The transition to .Net core has had some start-n-stop moments, and delays in core components that couldn't start until the framework was relatively mature. So on the fringes of tooling there have been some issues that had to wait for multiple dependencies to resolve. A delivers to B delivers to C delivers to D, and then we get a nice IDE. Most MSDN documentation has parallel examples in C# and F#. There were offical F# tutorials, examples, demos, and templates at RTM, though the editor situation was grim due to the .Net Core project format wars. Those have since been resolved. In general, though, the C# code from early tutorials will be relevant and easy to port as F# code is highly code-compatible with most normal C# code.
  - sasmithjr 8y ago
    Ionide, the F# plugin for VSCode, added autocomplete via .NET Core about a year ago. Only thing you need mono for is the REPL, and that's being worked on.
macca321 8y ago
If you're after Option or ADTs (Unions) for C#, I can heartily recommend https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf , it's brilliant. But then I would say that ;)
marxama 8y ago
C# 8 will introduce nullable reference types, which will effectively be equivalent to Options. And they are working on pattern matching (some simple, partial implementation is already in place AFAIK), though I don't know what will come of that.

smt88 8y ago

C# has a 3rd party Option lib that works well. I use it heavily. F# is probably a better competitor to Rust than C# though.

starik36 8y ago
Which Option lib is that?
- smt88 8y ago
  https://github.com/nlkl/Optional https://github.com/nlkl/Optional

nikofeyn 8y ago

.net is not equal to c#. f# has all of that and a much cleaner syntax than rust.

bsaul 8y ago
isn’t f# a second class citizen in .net core ? last time i checked you still needed to install mono to get some sort of autocompletion on vscode. And all the official tutorials were still in C# only.
- bonesss 8y ago
  F# is a "second class citizen" for all .Net tooling from MS, as C# is more popular. Luckily it is a first class citizen in language capabilities, and is years ahead of C# on that front ;) Ionide doesn't seem to require mono, ATM, for tooling in VS Code. VS Community Edition on the mac has autocomplete, full F# support (better than VS2017 in some areas), I think that might be cross-platform too (it might want Mono installed for other reasons, though). The transition to .Net core has had some start-n-stop moments, and delays in core components that couldn't start until the framework was relatively mature. So on the fringes of tooling there have been some issues that had to wait for multiple dependencies to resolve. A delivers to B delivers to C delivers to D, and then we get a nice IDE. Most MSDN documentation has parallel examples in C# and F#. There were offical F# tutorials, examples, demos, and templates at RTM, though the editor situation was grim due to the .Net Core project format wars. Those have since been resolved. In general, though, the C# code from early tutorials will be relevant and easy to port as F# code is highly code-compatible with most normal C# code.
- sasmithjr 8y ago
  Ionide, the F# plugin for VSCode, added autocomplete via .NET Core about a year ago. Only thing you need mono for is the REPL, and that's being worked on.

macca321 8y ago

If you're after Option or ADTs (Unions) for C#, I can heartily recommend https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf , it's brilliant. But then I would say that ;)

marxama 8y ago

C# 8 will introduce nullable reference types, which will effectively be equivalent to Options. And they are working on pattern matching (some simple, partial implementation is already in place AFAIK), though I don't know what will come of that.