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See the links I listed above. None of those features solved a language problem as large as the lack of sum types. It baffles me that they even spent time on them before providing a feature that is in such high demand (and has been for more than a decade).

I understand that you shouldn’t always give users what they ask for - but this is something that has picked up steam in other languages because it’s actually useful and makes code bases easier to maintain.

Yep, this is exactly the approach we take. It works ok-ish, but it’s far from elegant. In our case ‘read’ is ‘Switch’. I think it’s a fairly common pattern in C# these days.

We're discussing Windows and all its ad-ware/invasive changes, and someone brings up C#

I brought up C# because the article discusses a Microsoft Windows design philosophy that I feel is also reflected in their approach to C#. It’s a Microsoft thing.

I agree with you that the examples you mention were great additions to the language! But I still think the C# design team has some seriously screwed up priorities. My theory is that this one year cycle they are on is hampering their ability to make changes (like sum types) that require more than a year of work.

Yes, very clunky. One of the big issues with this approach is that switch expressions still require a default branch because there’s no way in C# to express a completely closed set. This makes future changes to the set (sum type) hazardous.

They continue to fiddle with design approaches to solve this. See https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025...

Here are some. I’m not saying these are all completely useless, but all of them should have taken a back seat to sum types.

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

They're doing the same thing with C#. The amount crap they have added to that language over the years is mind boggling - yet, we still don't have sum types which is the one thing that every C# developer I have worked with _really_ wants.

Ah - that's good to hear. Thanks for the extra information.

Kodak aims to conjure up cash by ceasing payments for its retirement pension plan.

I assume this means payments to retirees. It's a good reminder that (if you can help it) you should not rely 100% on any external source (including the government) for your retirement income.

This will make you feel better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152

Exactly. See also recent SalesForce comments along these lines.

Happy new year from the US South y’all.

Seems to be back up now.

I wonder if this is related to the NHC outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771629

The National Hurricane Center website has been returning "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" for a while now.

Is that unusual? Nothing in the article compares it to other fires. Honestly curious.

Also, this was a little ironic…

The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the company’s battery factory in Sparks, Nevada

I eagerly await the release on Apple Books.

C# has default interface implementations now, that can be used to create mixins...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/advanced-top...

2022

NOTAMs are issued for every weather baloon.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/notam_ht...

After what they did to Foundation, I’m not feeling very optimistic about this.

Almost three years to come to this conclusion?

Delete "Downloads". Everything in there is probably outdated (or soon will be) and can be downloaded again anyway.

Move the clutter to a folder in your cloud storage account. Configure that folder so it doesn't sync to your local device(s). In a few years you'll wonder why you still keep it around.

There actually are several C# to JavaScript transpilers out there but none are well-maintained with a strong following (compared to Fable). Some examples are...

https://github.com/theolivenbaum/h5

https://www.dice.com/career-advice/exploring-bridge-net-c-ja...

https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/02/duocode-csharp-javascript...

http://jsil.org

I wonder if the community just isn't interested in this approach.

Quite manually, actually. I ran an image search on DDG for "Amazon 404 cat" and looked through the results for a kid's drawing.

Maybe this is it?

http://telcontar.net/Screenshots/worldwidewonk/Amazon-404-eh...

A slightly cheaper option…

https://untamedscience.com/blog/gopro-to-space/

We use Copilot (chat) at work. IMO we are nowhere near the point of being concerned about this.

This is basically an injunction prohibiting the US Government from collaborating with social media companies to suppress speech. That’s a little too simple, the details are in the injunction.

They weren’t targeted. A description of the event is in the linked article.

Try hover.com. They have never sent me spam and upsell attempts are very minimal during purchase (mostly for their email service, I think).