Future Directions
When thinking about the future of a language, there's always a tension between the desire to add new features and the desire to keep the language simple.[10] There are a lot of possible features that could be added to C#, but only some of them will make the cut. At the time of this writing, we're focused on shipping the initial version of C# and haven't spent much time discussing which features will be added in the future.
[10] This idea is sometimes expressed as "Simplicity is a feature.”
One feature that we'd like to have, however, is generics (otherwise known as parameterized types). C# does have a limited type of genericity, in that every type can be stored as an object. This allows the creation of collection classes that ...
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