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high_na_euv ◴[] No.41878416[source]
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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pjmlp ◴[] No.41878459[source]
LINQ is largely based on FP stuff, also how Smalltalk collections work.

It is relatively easy to find similar capabilities in most languages nowadays, unless one is stuck on Go, C and similar.

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apwell23 ◴[] No.41878702[source]
No it isn't easy to find similar capabitites in java, go, python, ruby.

Maybe you do simulate some of this using meta programming in ruby but its certainly not 'easy to find'.

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pjmlp ◴[] No.41878746[source]
It certainly is, unless you are talking about SQL like syntax, which is basically syntax sugar for classical FP.

And I explicitly left Go out of my list.

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apwell23 ◴[] No.41878887[source]
>unless you are talking about SQL like syntax

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;
        }
    });
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1. ygra ◴[] No.41879328[source]
I guess the very fact that LINQ is so many things makes such discussions a bit annoying at times because everyone refers to a different set of features.

Is it the SQL-like query syntax? LINQ to objects? LINQ to SQL? Expression trees in general?

Expression trees and LINQ to SQL/EF/etc. are hard to find elsewhere. The query syntax often doesn't seem to be that big of a deal, especially since not all methods are available there, so pure query syntax often doesn't work anyway.