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0 pointschristophilus7y ago0 comments

Meh. I wrote C# for 13 years of my career, starting with .NET 1.0. I worked at Microsoft, writing C# services, I worked for consultancies writing C# servers, clients, and web apps.

I’ve been doing full time JS with some Ruby for the past 5 years. I doubt I could write anything more than “Hello world” in C# without a lot of Googling.

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throw201801037y ago· 3 in thread

    "I understand the concept of types and can read annotations but I’ve never written it. The few times I tried, I ran into difficulties."

I know it's part of the "typescript" section. But it honestly sounds like it is quite general.

I looked his github, and his only C# experience seems to be a tictactoe made in 2014.

danabramov7y ago

Author here.

I’ve worked on C# codebases professionally for about four years. They’re not open source because half of that time I worked on enterprise software (ASP .NET MVC, Entity Framework, NHibernate) and another half was a closed source product (Xamarin aka MonoTouch, Rx). Prior to that I worked a little on an open source static analysis tool (Gendarme) using Mono Cecil.

Prior to that I was moderating the .NET section on one of the largest Russian programming forums and translated documents like LINQ Overview when they came out. I also have a silver C# badge on StackOverflow. (https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/39/c-sharp?userid=4581...)

I know how types work. My remark was that I haven’t worked with C# for about four years. I’m not aware of changes between versions 5 and 9, and might have forgotten some of the C# syntax for things like lambdas, having worked a lot with JS since then.

christophilusOP7y ago

Hey. Thanks for Redux, and thanks for this blog post. It’s refreshing.

I’ve mentored a few junior devs in my day, and this kind of thing would have been really helpful to encourage them to keep pushing.

christophilusOP7y ago

Well, my GitHub would look pretty similar. I stopped writing c# just before the OSS culture came about for that community.

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