C# 7 with Mads Torgersen
What's next for C#? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard talked with Mads Torgersen about what's coming up in C# 7. But first some fun, talking about how languages evolve and the challenge of bringing new features to life while avoiding breaking what has come before. It's not easy building languages, especially popular ones! Mads talks about the process of deciding what is in and what will be pushed out for the next version of C#. Along the way, the discussion turns to grabbing onto great ideas from other languages (like pattern matching from F#) while still remaining true to the C# way of doing things. If you want an F# feature, use F#, but that doesn't preclude running with good ideas. A fun discussion with the guy who drives C# forward!
Guests:
Mads Torgersen
Mads Torgersen is the Program Manager for the C# Language at Microsoft and runs the C# design meetings. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2005, he was an associate professor at the University of Aarhus, doing programming language research.
Links:
- EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ee4fcff9-0c4c-4179-afd9-7a2fb90f5838
- Roslyn on GitHub https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
- Roslyn Analyzers https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn-analyzers
- Anonymous Methods https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0yw3tz5k.aspx