#387 Records – The good, bad & ugly
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Records – The good, bad & ugly
C# Records have been out for a while now and I purposely avoided jumping on the band wagon as all the other bloggers out there in were proclaiming how amazing they are. In my opinion, C# Records have been out just long enough for developers to start using them and unfortunately also misusing them. I am encountering a number of situations where Records are being used and it makes no sense why and none of the functionality they provide is being used.
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I get to help a lot of people learn C# programming every year. As I watch new developers grow and get used to working in C# and Visual Studio, it has become fairly clear to me that reading C# compiler errors and even their documentation is an acquired skill. I’ve made a request for Microsoft to improve the error message feedback in Visual Studio, but until that’s resolved developers still have a tough time working through early obstacles.
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