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I meant C# dynamic type actually. So I was wrong to mention Any.

• pjmlp 6y ago
  Which was added to support COM variant types as main goal, and as side effect of trying to make the CLR a good target for Python and Ruby, an effort that has mostly died and is kept around just for backwards compatibility.
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  • joelbluminator 6y ago
    Quick Google shows this thing is still being used, for quite a few use cases. Maybe it's not super popular but what do u base it dying out on? https://code-maze.com/advanced-csharp-dynamic-type/#whyusedynamic https://code-maze.com/advanced-csharp-dynamic-type/#whyusedy...
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      Its current support in .NET Core and closed issues with won't fix. https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/158 https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/158
      • joelbluminator 6y ago
        It's baked into the language and still used, so... There was a real need/use case for it.