Episode 17: Switching Gears to C# and .NET

Artur chatted with Dmitry Savchenko about C#, .NET and everything in between.

The reason is simple — we are changing our jobs as Android developers to be real enterprise professionals. Prepare for next episodes about macOS AppKit, Linux kernel, Go microservices and Plan 9 vs. Inferno. And maybe gardening at some point. Also — April Fools!

Seriously though — the episode is a great introduction into C# world. Just for erudition sake, you know.

Links:

C#

• Anders Hejlsberg — Turbo Pascal, C# and TypeScript designer
• Versions history
• Nullable reference types preview
• struct
• async and await
• yield
• F#
• Q#

.NET

• .NET Framework
• .NET Core
• .NET Framework vs. .NET Core

Tools

• JetBrains ReSharper
• JetBrains Rider
• Roslyn — .NET Compiler Platform
• Visual Studio Code
• MSBuild
• NuGet
• Team Foundation Server

Guests

• Dmitry Savchenko: GitHub

Hosts

• Artur Dryomov: Twitter, GitHub, blog

Discussion

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