I view .NET as basically a plundering band of nomads at the moment - taking the best concepts and even syntax from other languages. It's what keeps the platform relevant, but it also makes .NET a very broad subject to learn.
The Option pattern isn't too hard to code on your own if you don't want external dependencies, though some of the syntactic sugar from automatic conversions of Some values might not be as polished.
Honestly, a lot of the value in things like this is just the concept and the level of polish and documentation on something. I'm a huge fan of the Scientist library, for example, and that library is actually really simple under the covers, but represents a novel approach.
I view .NET as basically a plundering band of nomads at the moment - taking the best concepts and even syntax from other languages. It's what keeps the platform relevant, but it also makes .NET a very broad subject to learn.
The Option pattern isn't too hard to code on your own if you don't want external dependencies, though some of the syntactic sugar from automatic conversions of Some values might not be as polished.
Honestly, a lot of the value in things like this is just the concept and the level of polish and documentation on something. I'm a huge fan of the Scientist library, for example, and that library is actually really simple under the covers, but represents a novel approach.
Victimless Canary Testing with Scientist .NET
Matt Eland ・ Aug 31 ・ 4 min read