Summary
In this chapter, we took a look at the trends that have influenced—and are expected to continue to influence in the foreseeable future—the C# language. After having been born as an object-oriented language to go with the .NET Framework’s initial release, more and more developer-convenient features have been added to C# (for example, to ease data access with LINQ and to bridge with dynamically typed code using the DLR’s infrastructure). But we’re not done with C# yet; a lot of important trends need to be addressed going forward, to simplify development of concurrent software, to make the platform a better place for meta-programming, and to accommodate for the trends in the field of modeling.
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