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 is relatively easy to find similar capabilities in most languages nowadays, unless one is stuck on Go, C and similar.
Maybe you do simulate some of this using meta programming in ruby but its certainly not 'easy to find'.
And I explicitly left Go out of my list.
yes thats what linq is?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/linq/
"Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is the name for a set of technologies based on the integration of query capabilities directly into the C# language." With LINQ, a query is a first-class language construct, just like classes, methods, and events.
doing this in java is not LINQ imo
List<Integer> lowNums = filter(toList(numbers), new
Predicate<Integer>() {
@Override
public boolean apply(Integer n) {
return n < 5;
}
});Giant majority of ppl refers to this when talking about LINQ.
But yea, it is LINQ method chaining.
SQL like syntax is LINQ query syntax
You mean like fluent interface? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface
What does this have to do with LINQ or C#. I remember doing 'method chaining' in 1990s .
Various names, same concept.
"fluent interface is an object-oriented API whose design relies extensively on method chaining."
>What does this have to do with LINQ or C#.
Check the name of the namespace where all those APIs like Where, GroupBy, etc. are implemented, it is "System.Linq"
So thats why majority of ppl think about them when talking about LINQ.
Query syntax has like less than 1% of the "market share" versus method chaining style
// Method syntax
var evenNumbers = numbers.Where(num => num % 2 == 0).OrderBy(n => n);
// Query syntax
var evenNumbers = from num in numbers
where num % 2 == 0
orderby num
select num;