--- title: Brave new C# | daily.dev description: A retrospective critique of C#'s evolution, examining how the language has grown from a clean, elegant tool into an increasingly complex one. The author traces... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/0cquwinwq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Brave new C# | daily.dev og:description: A retrospective critique of C#'s evolution, examining how the language has grown from a clean, elegant tool into an increasingly complex one. The author traces... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/0cquwinwq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0cqUwINWq.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Brave new C# **[Master Yoda](https://daily.dev/sources/biixj2rltcrx7bbvxfw0d)** · [@pump1it](https://daily.dev/pump1it) · 43 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary A retrospective critique of C#'s evolution, examining how the language has grown from a clean, elegant tool into an increasingly complex one. The author traces the acceleration of feature additions from C# 7 onward, using data from the Roslyn repository and GitHub reactions to illustrate the trend. Specific features are analyzed critically: the redundancy of nint/nuint after IntPtr was enhanced, the confusing semantics of protected internal vs private protected, the non-obvious behavior of the default operator vs parameterless constructors, the proliferation of ref variants, and the sprawling record/struct combinations. The author acknowledges that many features are useful but questions whether the language is losing the simplicity and elegance that once defined it, drawing a parallel to C++'s notorious complexity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@barion** · 13 upvotes > yes C# is getting increasingly complex but most features are niche things most people don’t need to know about. > > > The language is not loosing its elegance but becoming more elegant by expanding language syntax and bcl coverage to remove boiler plate > > > id also argue that it is getting simpler, e.g. extension blocks are more intuitive than extension methods **@andersgravgaardjensen** · 5 upvotes > Most of the complex stuff is optional and/or syntactic sugar. Just ignore it, if you want to keep the "old feel". **@teec** · 3 upvotes > The complexity of C# has grown over time since I can remember working in the .net 1.0 framework version. Sometimes I feel like the syntactic sugar is nice to have but do I really need it? Will it make my code more readable? I think Microsoft is destroying the elegance of C# when trying to compete with other languages such as python. **@camilobernal** · 2 upvotes > **Too much syntactic sugar (arguably the driver behind many of the new features) could end up causing ‘diabetes’ in our development practices** **@matheuzzol** · 0 upvotes > It's sad that F# is not being used as it should be but at least it worked to shows that "functional" approach have a lot of good things that can be well used in C# as well. I really enjoy the (not so)new features like records and pattern matching, all features that came from F#. > > As @andersgravgaardjensen told, the developer can decide what kind of syntax prefer to use, I know people that still using delegates rater than Action/Func 😅 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The best new features of C\# 14](https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-new-features-of-c-14-6gsbbjwv4) · InfoWorld · 46 upvotes · 4 comments - [Worse is better: C\# versus F\#](https://daily.dev/posts/worse-is-better-c-versus-f--qwsirarul) · ploeh blog · 34 upvotes · 4 comments --- Tags: [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#c#](https://daily.dev/tags/c#), [#language-design](https://daily.dev/tags/language-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/0cquwinwq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/0cquwinwq","headline":"Brave new C#","text":"Shared: Brave new C#","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/0cquwinwq","datePublished":"2026-02-27T14:33:57.873Z","dateModified":"2026-02-27T14:34:44.934Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Master Yoda","url":"https://daily.dev/pump1it","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--QoEA3qeD--/f_auto/v1739976473/avatars/avatar_BiIXJ2RLtCrx7bbvXFw0D","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":2700}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":43},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/22kpHHzvE"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"yes C# is getting increasingly complex but most features are niche things most people don’t need to know about.\nThe language is not loosing its elegance but becoming more elegant by expanding language syntax and bcl coverage to remove boiler plate\nid also argue that it is getting simpler, e.g. extension blocks are more intuitive than extension methods","datePublished":"2026-02-27T15:14:22.477Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/0cqUwINWq#c-tJxb48zEd","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Barion","url":"https://daily.dev/barion","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/76686287?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":13}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Most of the complex stuff is optional and/or syntactic sugar. 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