I hope that remains the case. File structure inferred namespacing to save one line per file seems like a ridiculous breaking change. If you're looking for succinctness to the level that something like that matters in your line/character count, use Perl or something.
If you're looking for something like scripting without a lot of fanfare, just look at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...
So what I see is a very capable language, with generics far ahead of golang, but a pain to write because I need to nest them inside namespaces and classes. If you take the HN crowd for instance (which is what a lot of startups are like), nobody wants to write Java-style OOP. C# can simplify it quite a bit (retaining full backward compat), but likely won't.
Then... maybe F# would be more your bag?
Features like this just cause more unexpected and surprising things to happen.
I always tell folks I work with to have a “reader bias” when writing code. People bend backwards to add fancy reflection and magic to automatically save 3 lines of code then spend days of headache debugging it when it causes a problem.
Like all seasoned ICs I say the same thing, but yours is more succinct.
Not at all. This can be done without breaking code. The important part isn't typing the namespace - rather, the freedom to move files around without having to change namespaces.
Even if it were something like:
auto namespace; // for example
> just look at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...
I am not looking for a scripting solution. C# is a misfit for it. I want all of C#, with terseness and not forcing OOP.
So... without and IDE, you'd move code around, let the NS be changed due to being placed in a different directory structure, and then fix namespaces on use-sites manually?
> I want all of C#, with terseness and not forcing OOP.
C# does not force OOP on you. You can have a single namespace, single static partial class and spread its members across as many files as you want. So the "ceremony" consists of the following snippet _per file_
namespace NS;
static partial class C {
// Your methods here
}