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Myths about F#: C# will become F# anyway, so we don’t need F#! Nope, not happening.

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C# indeed gets more and more features known to F#, like pattern matching, switch expressions, records, a way to deal with nulls, and someday maybe even discriminate unions and deep equality on collections. Maybe even type inference could become as powerful as in F#. However, C# can’t eliminate the features it already has, like mutability by default and statements. Immutability by default and expressions-only are strengths of F# and make building error-free apps easier. Real pipes and...

Test Driven Development Myths

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I’m often hearing thoughts about Test Driven Development from people not using it, which are not true (at least not 100%).
Therefore, I want to describe some of these myths here:

Writing unit tests is difficult and complex
Projects take longer because of the additional test code that has to be written
Not everything can be tested with unit tests. Therefore TDD cannot be used.
There is no need for architecture and design because TDD claims to evolve that from tests

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