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C# is a statically typed language that gets a lot right (and not coincidentally also borrows a ton from Python). As mainstream languages go it's probably the best out there; too bad the Mono compiler is usually a version behind and the VM does not have competitive performance with either Windows CLR or Linux JVM.

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Except C#'s still quite verbose. Doubly so if you heavily use generics and functional programming. You just aren't as free in the style of code that works.

For one sample point, I rewrote one of FreeSWITCH's C modules in C# and F#. The F# version had 1/20th the number of type annotations.

The c# version is pretty concise. And since 3.0 with implicitly typed local variables, its gotten less verbose.

var result = seq.Where(a=>a %3==0).Select(a=>a*a);

Yea, but try moving the predicate to a local function, and you get:

Func<int, bool> pred = a => a %3 == 0.

Mix in more complex types (say a dictionary with a tuple in it), and it starts getting pretty verbose.

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