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As a person with a lot of .NET experience but has been working on other tech since 6 years, the wow effect I had from using LINQ has never been repeated with anything else.

It felt like magic, maybe too much magic, but so useful nevertheless.

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LINQ comes from FP, and was introduced into C# via Haskell, and actually the first version (.NET 3.5) was quite similar to Smalltalk or Common Lisp collections.

Java is getting that power in a different, more orthogonal way, IMO, through Project Babylon: https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/

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