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Re: "Any C# fans in the crowd? I have a large legacy C# codebase..."
I'll agree there. The second C# supported nullables, I turned that on but its going to take years for all supporting libraries before it is universal (I hope). With old projects, you can only do that one file at a time.
I like to think newer languages learn from previous ones and NULL will continue to be pushed down.
Refactoring legacy code bases is a pain, more so when the previous team didn't have discipline or a good architecture. That is one reason I'm strict with code reviews.
I inherited a 600 kLOC project (C#, 1.1 MLOC total including SQL Server) twelve years ago and I'm still refactoring out "just make it work" code. It's a painful journey, no matter what language.
If you can, I would strong suggest you try out Rider though. Once you get over the learning curve, it has superior refactoring, analysis, and navigation tools.
2023-08-25 · 5 weeks ago
Any C# fans in the crowd? I have a large legacy C# codebase at work, and I don't like this language. I feel like this language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, or write code that performs badly and doesn't scale (especially EF+LINQ). And, I find it hard to refactor C# code because of hidden control flow, colored functions (async/not/static/dynamic), 'hidden code' like getters and frequent disruptive changes (across runtime/EF versions). However, some people love it to death and I'd...