Should LINQ Be Banned from C#!?

This Reddit poster was forbidden from using LINQ in their .NET projects. No LINQ-2-SQL. No LINQ extension methods. No LINQ queries. But why? After more context, there's much more to this story... and none of it's good.

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[SpiderJack]

That's crazy. I'd definitely start polishing the resume and looking for some place a little less arbitary.

[larsdahl]

I have had some discussions with colleagues about LINQ as I am a bit against it.
It is due to it is harder to read (human readability.), and as I say: "Think of those coming after you, maintaining the code.".
I did some tests asking the others to figure out what simple lines of code did.
The result was that it took people far longer time to understand LINQ than more ordinary ways to program the same.

[someidiotwithnoname]

Yes. I had static methods restricted due to issues in unit tests. We would actually make an Class that inherits an Interface then use Ninject to inject that class as a dependency where needed.

[ИванИванов-яэк]

haha wanna give you another one. Listen: "Why we should use anything except static methods? We should not." That was a serious statement from a Team Lead of one company. Heard about it from my ex-colleague. The speech was about PHP, but it does not matter. PHP and C# +/- support the same OOP concepts.

[Otto-the-Autopilot]

So, where does one get that t-shirt? I want it.

[codewithsean]

That is amazing. It sounds like fear dominates productivity and simple good coding practices. There are many people that really think adding unit tests add to the timeline. They're right. It does. Except for when you actually include the support and bug fix time in with the coding time. Then unit tests actually save time!
And you're right that LINQ is an integrated and integral part of the .NET framework. Not allowing LINQ is like not allowing C# devs to use .NET because it's open source.

[nuthanmurari]

Your videos are good but missing some content in background due to overlapping. Make sure on this 🙂

[Grumpicles]

My one nit-pick is when you say "don't use hard coded SQL", you don't say "why". There's no learning for viewers by just saying it's very, very wrong in 2024.

[irawsum]

Hard coded SQL with a custom ORM? No thanks! This company is too backwards for my liking.

[socar-pl]

I would ban foreach as well. God gave us for loop to use it and not sin with laziness with some foreach. And vars. var as well is devils idea