C# 8 and Beyond - Filip Ekberg

One of the most popular programming language on the market is getting even better. With every iteration of C# we get more and more features that are meant to make our lives as developers a lot easier.

Join me in this session to explore what's new in C# 8, as well as what we can expect in the near (and far) future of C#!

We'll talk about:
- News in C# 8
- Pattern Matching (incl. Record Types)
- Nullable Reference Types and How to Avoid Null Reference Exceptions
- How Async & Await is Improving

Check out more of our talks in the following links!

NDC Conferences

[vmilev]

Record Types unfortunately seems to have been dropped from C# 8.0. Any ideas if it is still planned for C# 8.x minor update, or it will be in C# 9 and beyond?

[Grimlock]

46:14 "I would vote for the 1st one because they don't have to introduce any new keywords" It still introduces the "not" keyword, haha.

Anyway, I think the 1st one is the only good option. If you have && or || with a mix of "is" and "is not" you run into the same problem again with "unless"

[alexclark]

Most of the new features are terrific; some cause me to wonder why though. Are we really saving anything by removing the need to implement IDisposable and just have a Dispose method? Seems like we're pushing it towards duck-typing and that can bring its own set of woes. Same goes for Deconstruct - is the compiler just looking for a method of that name to map to? Would it not have been better to have an IDeconstructable interface and allow classes to opt in that way?

[acf]

50:00 so integers now contain a member integer... Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!

[dmitrij]

Not a fan of deconstruct pattern(presented use cases are literally unreadable, but maybe other nicer ones will pop up), but property pattern seems cool.

[rubeushagrid]

You can also release videos that are short and crisp.

[VoroninPavel]

I hope Record Types will have generated private parameterless constructor and properties with private setters. I want them to work soothly with EF Core.

[isrcast]

Please make presenter smaller and presentation bigger.

[frankhaugen]

In 9, I hope they do a breaking change and remove goto, which is the grandchild of the devil!!!

[loam]

The guy just loves to show himself off: Ugh, look at me, I'm in a diving suit, I can dive and swim, wow, I'm so cool! Ugh, I fixed broken link in the github account of C#, wow, AMAZING, I'm soooo in love with myself!

And why the fuck would you show the picture in the diving suit, when talking about C#, it's like "Ugh, I'm sorry, don't have any regular photos, so here's the one with diving suit for NO FUCKING REASON!"