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0 pointsMrLeap1y ago0 comments

I bounce back and forth between javascript and C# depending on the nature of the job at hand. I'm curious what things you'd like to do with C# that you can't?

I find that with some handwringing, C# can be forced to do almost anything. between extension methods, dispatch proxies and reflection you can pummel it into basically any shape.

Having to write a little boilerplate to make it happen can be a drag though. I do sometimes wish C# had something from a blank project that let me operate with as much reckless abandon as Object.assign does in js land.

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Hawxy1y ago

It's not the fault of the language, it's just the nature of infrastructure code that's been ported from terraform. With Pulumi C# you end up with multiple nested objects/dictionaries with a load of `new` object calls that just add noise to your codebase. There's also some pain points with some types being Input<T> which IDEs try to autocomplete when in reality you need to call `new T()`. Typescript permits structural typing that _feels_ a lot better to write and read within this context.

I use C# extensively for most other things I do, but this the one area where I prefer not to use it.

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0 pointsMrLeap1y ago0 comments

I bounce back and forth between javascript and C# depending on the nature of the job at hand. I'm curious what things you'd like to do with C# that you can't?

I find that with some handwringing, C# can be forced to do almost anything. between extension methods, dispatch proxies and reflection you can pummel it into basically any shape.

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Hawxy1y ago

I use C# extensively for most other things I do, but this the one area where I prefer not to use it.

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