5 days Ago
C# 13 improvements
Published on in Programming
The final document of What’s new in C# 13 (Microsoft Learn) is available. There are no major changes for most end users; the changes listed are interested for library and framework developers—especially those interested in writing highly performant code, e.g., Microsoft in its BCL and ASP.NET.
- Completely unsurprisingly, the
params
keyword now also applies toIEnumerable<T>
(as well as many descendants) as well asSpan<T>
andReadOnlySpan<T>
. - There’s now an official
Lock
object that, when used instead of the... [More]
Links and Notes for September 6th, 2024
Published on in Notes
Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.
Table of Contents
6 days Ago
The purpose of books
Published on in Quotes
“[…] ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.[1]”
“[…] a book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
↩“Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen. Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch? Damit es uns glücklich macht, wie Du schreibst? Mein Gott, glücklich wären wir eben auch, wenn wir keine Bücher hätten, und solche Bücher,... [More]”