Chapter 4. Comparing Approaches for Programming

Up until this point, we have centered upon the C# language and its evolution. However, this evolution is not the only one in .NET framework as far as languages are concerned. Other languages have kept evolving as well (and this is independent of the fact that many more compilers have increased the list of languages for which there is a .NET version nowadays). Especially, there are two members of the .NET language ecosystem, F# and TypeScript, which are becoming increasingly popular among the programmer community, and we're going to—briefly—introduce them in this chapter.

Consequently, we will review some of the most relevant aspects of both languages, with C# as a reference in both cases.

With this goal, our purpose is to roughly underline the most crucial programming structures in such a way that you can establish a comparison between the ways you code usual and everyday programming tasks but using different languages...