LibGit2Sharp VS language-ext

To use it as an API on windows you might want to go with a C# wrapper. libgit2sharp

You might want to leverage something like libgit2 if you store that data in a unique location. After you commit changes to your data, you can find the patch differences in the file. Then store the commit hash and set up communication that wakes up when the hash changes. When the commit hash changes, you send just the patch changes to the clients which can apply them to their local copy.

libgit2sharp to work with git repositories in .NET https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp

Is it something you could possibly achieve with git? - https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp/

Currently, my plan is to use LibGit2Sharp to do almost all the logic, and use System.IO to manage the local files. Problem is: LibGit2Sharp documentation is very sparse and hard to read.

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).

Language-Ext is my personal favourite, but it can be a bit overwhelming for beginners due to its extensive feature set

> 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

Definitely a fan of option types, I wonder this library has anything over the C# library language-ext which also has an Option type?

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?

> [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...

languageext supports linq for its monads and I kinda love it. The challenge is convincing my colleagues. 😅

language-ext supports it and it's pretty dang cool.

I can only recommend c# language extensions library https://github.com/louthy/language-ext