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One thing I've always admired about C# is that it's an ISO standard. Which I'm not sure if that really means much these days in terms of computer programming la
by Yhippa 6y ago
One thing I've always admired about C# is that it's an ISO standard. Which I'm not sure if that really means much these days in terms of computer programming languages. It seems like it would be an amazing hedge against a private organization co-opting it in the future.
- int_19h 6y agoThe catch is that C# standardization lags behind language evolution. At the moment, the most recent edition is ECMA-334:2017 aka ISO/IEC 23270:2018. It corresponds to C# version 5.0, originally released back in 2012 - it was the one that introduced async/await, and it's still missing stuff like null chaining. (for the curious, here's the complete list of C# language versions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-version-history https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...)