NET Rocks Live with Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner – Two Nice C# People
summary
Live conversation lays out concrete C# changes and engineering tradeoffs: community PRs have already added expression-bodied members and other tweaks, one engineer exceeds one million reputation on Stack Overflow, Google Cloud client libraries use protobuf/gRPC generation plus small handwritten helpers, proposals under serious debate include non-nullable reference types and record types, Polly is recommended for retries and circuit breakers, and the Humanitarian Toolbox project’s Already app is in production with Red Cross pilots and volunteer-driven bug fixes.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:30Blockchain and Bitcoin
- 6:10Star Wars Star Trek
- 7:10Diversity
- 8:25Thank you
- 10:05Stack Overflow
- 11:25Rep Cap
- 13:00Language Design
- 16:00Feature Requests
- 19:08How far can C go
- 20:40Will C ever get too big
- 24:48Checked exceptions
- 27:50Meeting notes
- 30:22C dull
- 33:02Drones
- 35:28Google Cloud Platform
- 37:50Voice Note
- 39:18Open Source C
- 39:52Is Open Source Necessary
- 41:12Roadmap
- 42:22Spikes
- 43:22Designing your understanding
- 45:28Keeping the language relevant
- 46:32Features in different buckets
- 49:00Record types
- 51:12Humanitarian Tool Box
- 55:25Microsoft MVP Program
- 56:27Hackathon
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