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C# looked a lot more complex than Modula-3 when I last looked at it. The book was thick. They definitely did nice things in C#. I just don't know it's fair to e

C# looked a lot more complex than Modula-3 when I last looked at it. The book was thick. They definitely did nice things in C#. I just don't know it's fair to equate it with the simplicity vs get shit done vs small runtime of Modula-3. I am up for you elaborating a bit on the second sentence since it sounds interesting. Not doing .NET, I don't know what any of those are except the middle one which sounds like SYSTEM/UNSAFE sections.

pjmlp 8y ago
It is more complex, but Modula-3 isn't that tiny either, around Algol 68/Ada 83 "tiny". They integrated the improvements from M#/System C# (Midori) into C#. Namely return ref, ref for local variables, stack allocation for arrays in safe code, spans (slices) across all memory types, allocation free pipelines.