I have just started learning C# having previously known only Python. It's a learning curve - why is there so much syntax!? 😬

Better performance and control over code is the sacrifice for development time.

I dove into C# for a short while and intend to go back eventually.

I remember looking at all the boilerplate then firing up Visual Studio and my laptop fan takes off ...

"Well that seems kinda unnecessary..."

Don't worry, you'll get used to it.
But thank you for being an example of why Python shouldn't be taught as a first language, like my University first year teachers want to do... poor new students...

The similarity of Python to pseudocode and it's indentation-based syntax are some of it's unique features. The language was designed to be that way.

C# has other main objectives, which results in more boilerplate / syntax to learn. But it has advantages in other areas you'll see soon.

Yea mos lt languages have brackets. Lots and lots of brackets but then indentation doesn't really matter

I’ve read your rant and I only have seen the word “curve”. I want a curvy person to squeeze

@c3r38r170 @justamuslimguy agreed

@uyouthe how curvy we talking?

we charge by the pound here.

@c3r38r170 My university exclusively teaches C++ as a first language, and IMO it's a lot easier to go "oh, so Java uses pointers implicitly for non-primitives" and "oh so Python uses this exception thing to handle errors" instead of the inverse, which is "the fuck's a pointer?".

Case in point the guy here (or on StackOverflow idk which) a while ago complaining because he couldn't understand the difference between *int64 and int64.

I learned python first, and it was the worst mistake of my coding career. It's indentation syntax and lack of boilerplate are really cool, but not a single other language does that

Because I learned python first, I struggled learning other languages

Yeah, I know that feel

@sudo-woodo That's cool. My old teachers are thinking of using Python to replace Pascal, that's the language we were introduced.
I already knew Java, PHP, JS and MySQL by then so I just nailed it, but poor classmates who had to learn programming using :=...

@10Dev Nim uses that sort of syntax, i can probably think of some other languages that have that. If anything the one for Nim is far more anal since you can't use tabs....it has to be 4 fucking spaces. But the language is otherwise nice.

I still hate syntactic whitespace.

... what do you mean, "so much"?
it could be fit onto one side of one sheet of paper, without even trying.

@Wisecrack I don’t talk to those who use pounds to measure THIS.

60 kilograms or more.

Verbosity is good, actually.
Make that code W I D E and give your components nice names

@N00bPancakes I totally get that, I don't like visual studio myself either.

If you want a simpler setup, consider just using the dotnet command line tool and any text editor you prefer.

@uyouthe ah british.

you pay the premium.

I totally meant to write "pounds *sterling*".