Sam Walpole

@samwalpole
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Senior Sofware Engineer specialising in .NET, C#, and AWS. Looking to share insights, build community, and be inspired.

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Show threadSam WalpoleSep 30, 2024
@kleinhaus @maxitb I don't have any experience in C, but something I find them useful for is returning some data or an error. Currently I find myself creating result objects that have nullable Data and Error properties which is then quite clunky to check. The idea with unions would be to return something that either is only the data or only the error, which I think is a much more robust way of doing things.
Show threadSam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@candoumbe I'm glad to hear that. Nice to meet you :)
Sam WalpoleSep 29, 2024

I've recently become aware of the proposal to add discriminated unions to C#. Personally I think this is one of the biggest features missing from C# right now and I'd love to see it implemented.

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/TypeUnions.md

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csharplang/proposals/TypeUnions.md at main · dotnet/csharplang

The official repo for the design of the C# programming language - dotnet/csharplang

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Show threadSam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@mbrdev Hey 👋 Nice to meet you!
Show threadSam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@Ophitoxaemia Hey 👋 What makes you reluctant about C#? :)
Show threadSam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@0xEE Nice to meet you! Same here, I was missing the Twitter/X format but really didn't want to go back there.
Show threadSam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@codemouse92 Hi! Nice to meet you :)
Sam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@askonth Yes there are definitely more job opportunities in C#. That's why I learned it too!
Show threadSam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@shom Thanks for the tip!
Sam WalpoleSep 29, 2024
@askonth Nice. If you're coming from Clojure, have you tried F#? It's .NETs functional language so has those benefits plus the .NET tooling. I've played with it a bit but most of my work is with C#.