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;
}
});The link that you gave says "LINQ is the name for a set of technologies" which includes the "SQL like syntax".
Includes is not the same as "is".
It isn't the most often used part of LINQ.
And when languages imitate features of a different language, they tend to go for the features that people like and use. No-one is going to add "similar capabilities" to the feature that no-one wants in the first place. People who say "C#'s LINQ is awesome!" just aren't talking about "sql like syntax", and people who say "without sql like syntax it's just not on the same level as LINQ" are misguided.