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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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upgrade-assistant
A tool to assist developers in upgrading .NET Framework applications to .NET 6 and beyond
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Nim
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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If you are a server side web app, the migration process from legacy net Framework app to net 5/6 has gotten _a lot_ easier in past few years.
The biggest barrier for most in my experience has been getting through the project file changes needed. Thankfully, after ~4 years of community complaints, Microsoft finally aquiessed and made a CLI tool that does about 80 percent of that work:
https://github.com/dotnet/upgrade-assistant
Before the release of this tool, you had to rely on community made tools/guides or just rewrite the project file by hand to the new format. I inherited a project with over 600 large net4x csproj files - prior to this tool Microsoft's official stance was "rewrite them by hand".
I still think the upgrade process needs much more polish/wizards in the VS UI, for junior developers especially, but it's gotten much better. The vast majority of important third party dependencies are all net5 ready now in my experience now too, so often just replacing the csproj file and setting target framework to net5 is enough.
If you have a legacy WinForms app though and want full cross-platform benefits of net5... cost to move to modern UI framework can be significant.
Same! Your Simple Programs proposal in that area is really great: https://github.com/dotnet/designs/pull/213
I am really looking forward to the day when I can use C# for all my scripting needs instead of Bash/Python/PowerShell. We’re getting there.
I don't get it why people always hated (tracing) GC. Unless you are working on a hard real time systems such as DSP or audio synthesizer, having some kind of GC is always the boon.
Not only you can run code faster in some case (by suspending GC in some critical code and just do plain allocate and resume at a later time), it can also help curb fundamental security issues such as dangling pointers and use-after-free.
GC is also not the blame to the bloated size of your app, Nim [1], for example, is a language with GC/runtime while being lightweight. Another honorable mention would be Haxe [2], where it can generate much more compelling C++ code that the binary size is just slightly bigger to what you normally do with C++ while having much less lines needed to code.
So I do think GC-enabled language can be like C/C++/Rust. Even if there is a binary and performance difference, it won't be huge. But the way it makes your program safer by a huge margin and your programmer less mentally pain, makes having GC a huge difference.
[1]: https://nim-lang.org
