I know one person who was good at python, and who looked at the "classic" .NET hello world app with usings, namespace, class, main method etc containing the "Console.Writeline" payload, and noped out immediately, saying "if it's that verbose that it takes 10 lines to do what's 1 line in python, imagine how terrible real code must be!"
Personally I think they were wrong about that - it was optimised for larger programs, not trivial ones.
But also it helps me understand the ongoing push towards the point now where "hello world" is is 1 line in 1 .cs file only. And `dotnet tool exec` means you don't even need to install a utility to use it, etc.
In other words, .NET started life as a truck, with many features to support large codebases - usings, namespace, class, method etc. but is also general purpose enough that you can now also write a "bicycle" program.
I know one person who was good at python, and who looked at the "classic" .NET hello world app with usings, namespace, class, main method etc containing the "Console.Writeline" payload, and noped out immediately, saying "if it's that verbose that it takes 10 lines to do what's 1 line in python, imagine how terrible real code must be!"
Personally I think they were wrong about that - it was optimised for larger programs, not trivial ones.
But also it helps me understand the ongoing push towards the point now where "hello world" is is 1 line in 1 .cs file only. And `dotnet tool exec` means you don't even need to install a utility to use it, etc.
In other words, .NET started life as a truck, with many features to support large codebases - usings, namespace, class, method etc. but is also general purpose enough that you can now also write a "bicycle" program.