C#: Program Entirely with Static Methods

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9 points·SLaszlo··5 comments

Why not choose a language you don't have to fight against if you want to do a purely functional program?

Sometimes you don't get to choose. Sometimes someone higher up in the company gets to choose for you.

If that's the case, then using a style that is completely counter to the mainstream usage of said language will probably make them even more unhappy than challenging their language choice.

Code review is real, and when you leave and they hire a new developer, they will be even more upset when the new dev can't understand your code because it's bending the language in ways it wasn't meant for.

I heavily advise against trying to fight your battle here, it's only going to cause more friction later.

C# supports functional programming so what's the problem? It is not 'completely counter to the mainstream usage'. I write mostly in VB.Net (not by choice) but I write a lot of code in functional style, no one complains.

Some functional constructs isn't really what I was talking about. The premise of the article (full disclosure, I only made it partially in, so correct me if I'm wrong) seemed to be "here's how you can program with almost nothing but static methods". That's definitely counter to mainstream usage, it's attempting to use C# as if it were a non-OOP language, and that's going to frustrate anyone new to the codebase.

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