Sometimes you may hear oppinions that there are too many changes introduced to the C# and/or too fast. That people get lost and confused about all this new syntax and feature added here and there. And while one may argue or not, I would like to look at this topic from a different angle – what are you missing in C#? What single functionality would you enjoy the most?
I’ve asked the same question here and there (in Polish) and here are aggregated results, sorted by popularity, with some additional remarks from my side:
1. Discriminated unions
The clear winner is a possibility to use “discriminated unions”. There is an ongoing proposal about them already. The most often mentioned wishes here are to have good pattern matching support (we hope so!) and F# DU compatiliby (unlikely, like in the case with records).Continue reading