Yeah I found the blog posts, but then had the problem of “what compiler am I using now?” Was it the Roslyn one or RyuJIT? Does RyuJIT support .NetCore or is it in Standard or Framework or one of other seemingly limitless versions of .Net that exists for some reason.
Apparently I could use a library called Vectors, buried deep inside some numerical library, but then the runtime wouldn’t recognise the libraries existence despite being a dependency and installed (and linked and every other thing you have to do to get .Net to do anything). After I fixed that issue it wouldn’t let me construct any arrays or anything.
Suffice to say, on top of C#/F# being painful to deal with at the best of times, attempting to do anything numerical was an absolute shit fight. I’m sure if you’ve got a whole team, you can make anything work, but for me it was not at all worth the effort.
When you consider I can get fully guaranteed (not just hoping the compiler chooses to optimise it right) in Julia practically for free along with nicer syntax, 100% less namespacing hell, equal or greater performance, and far more data science and numerical packages and it’s hard to see what the draws of C# would be.
