[zvrba]

> Pushing these into an IDE is the Windows way of doing things.

s/Windows/modern/

> To win in Unix land, C# needs to be editable in a plain text editor.

I guess hard-core unix users still use sticks and stones to make fire.

[jeswin]

I just want to focus on writing functions. Here's a trivial example.

I would like:

  // math/adder.cs
  public static add(int x, int y) : int {
    return x + y;
  }

Instead of:

  // math/adder.cs
  namespace math {
    class adder {
      public static add(int x, int y) : int {
        return x + y;
      }
    }
  }

Both are callable as:

  math.adder.add(10, 20);

[zvrba]

C# allows file-level namespaces so you can write

    namespace Math;

    static class Adder {
      public static int Add(...) { ... }
    }

(one nesting level less). Next, elsewhere you can write

    namespace Whatever;
    using static Math.Adder;

    class CC {
      void M() {
        var z = Add(10, 20); // no NS qualification needed due to using static above
      }
    }

Java enforces directory structure to reflect package names, and this feature is not universally popular.

[metaltyphoon]

I agree with the first example. I wish C# could do “free” floating functions which just lives in the namespace itself. Your second example could do with the extra namespace indentation by doing

namespace math;

[politician]

Consider:

    // math/adder.cs
    package math;

    …code…

[claytongulick]

Just Linux (not counting other *nix) has a ~63% server market share. [1]

That's a lot of sticks and stones.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys...

[pjmlp]

Plenty of those servers run Java, which is where C# kind of comes from due to J++ lawsuit.

[speed_spread]

Server != Dev Workstation