LINQ is so fucking useful and well designed feature of .NET ecosystem that it is unreal when you gotta use lang which doesnt have such a thing.
C# design team is/was unparalleled
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C# design team is/was unparalleled
It's pretty well put together but it was very hard to work out the patterns of what it was doing underneath e.g. I could not tell you now how to implement a custom IQueryable (I know where to look but couldn't tell you the rhythms of it) for some database and I am the type of person who usually does go and find that kind of thing out before using something for a "serious" project.
Maybe it's just a microcosm for C# as a whole - very productive language, good design team, quite hobbled by it's weird/philistine upbringings: Bjarne said within C++ there is a simple language trying to escape, in C# you basically have a simple language buried in nouns.