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language-ext
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The Monad Invasion - Part 2: Monads in Action!
You probably noticed that .SetName() returns a Either. You may have come across Unit in libraries like MediatR or Language-Ext. It's a simple construct representing a type with only one possible value. We use it as a placeholder for operations that do not return a value but may return another state. In our example, .SetName() is a Command that does not return a value but may fail. Therefore, the monad Either carries two possible states: Right (without value) or Left (with an Error).
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The Monad Invasion - Part 1: What's a Monad?
Language-Ext is my personal favourite, but it can be a bit overwhelming for beginners due to its extensive feature set
- Why don't you just use F#?
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The combined power of F# and C#
> but I just want something closer to Scala, but for .Net
That's what I'm working toward with my language-ext library [1]. Obviously more support for expression based programming would be welcome (and higher kinds), but you can do a lot with LINQ and a good integrated library surface.
[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
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Option<T> monad for Unity/UniTask
Definitely a fan of option types, I wonder this library has anything over the C# library language-ext which also has an Option type?
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Result pattern: language-ext vs FunctionalExtensions?
Hey, I am considering adopting the Result pattern in my codebase. Wanted to get some opinions from someone who has experience with it: should I start with language-ext or FunctionalExtensions?
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John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018)
> [1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
Cool library. I've had a few of these patterns in my Sasa library for years, but you've taken it to the Haskell extreme! Probably further than most C# developers could stomach. ;-)
You might be interested in checking out the hash array mapped trie from Sasa [1]. It cleverly exploits the CLR's reified generics to unbox the trie at various levels which ends up saving quite a bit of space and indirections, so it performs almost on par with the mutable dictionary.
I had an earlier version that used an outer struct to ensure it's never null, similar to how your collections seem to work, but switched to classes to make it more idiomatic in C#.
I recently started sketching out a Haskell-like generic "Deriving" source generator, contrasted with your domain-specific piecemeal approach, ie. [Record], [Reader], etc. Did you ever try that approach?
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/sasa/code/ci/default/tree/Sasa.Col...
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/sasa/code/ci/57417faec5ed442224a0f...
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Don't sleep on Linq query syntax if you regularly iterate through large/complex data sources
languageext supports linq for its monads and I kinda love it. The challenge is convincing my colleagues. 😅
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What C# feature blew your mind when you learned it?
language-ext supports it and it's pretty dang cool.
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It's actually not that bad...
I can only recommend c# language extensions library https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
Avalonia
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Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
- Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.
See my comment [2]
[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.
Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
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Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."
(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
- Dezvoltare aplicatie desktop
- Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a single code base?
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.NET 8 – .NET Blog
It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.
Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.
[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)
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One Game, by One Man, on Six Platforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For desktop, Avalonia, hands down.
https://avaloniaui.net/
Open source, powered by Skia, backed by JetBrains, and quite battle-tested at this point for small to medium-sized apps. In theory perfectly capable for enterprise as well, since it's basically a spiritual successor to WPF, which has been an industry standard for about 15 years.
They're diving into mobile and WASM well, but that's more of a recent effort and I haven't tested that yet.
What are some alternatives?
OneOf - Easy to use F#-like ~discriminated~ unions for C# with exhaustive compile time matching
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
CSharpFunctionalExtensions - Functional extensions for C#
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Optional - A robust option type for C#
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
MoreLINQ - Extensions to LINQ to Objects
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
Curryfy - Provides strongly typed extensions methods for C# delegates to take advantages of functional programming techniques, like currying and partial application.
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
VisualFSharp - The F# compiler, F# core library, F# language service, and F# tooling integration for Visual Studio
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono