You know, I don’t know enough about Delphi. I’ve great good things, I should check it out, I guess it might be familiar.

I enjoyed playing with Kotlin on Android. Nice ergonomics.

Conversely, I’ve written C++ code to into DLLs interop with .NET. It makes a lot of sense given what .NET was developed for.

Rust adds the curly brace syntax so you can import a specific subset from a module, but I can’t decide if I like that. In C# you just keep adding extra lines which take up more vertical space, but if you sort your using a alphabetically (which your IDE can do), I think you get a very readable list. In sum, Rust adds a feature that I don’t really actually like.

I have so little Python experience I didn’t even mention it, but I remember enjoying that too.

Wow, now I have something to hold over all my Java dev friends. Thanks!

I think C# handles this pretty well. You include namespaces with whatever granularity you need, down to a single class (or interface or whatever) and can alias them.

using MyProject.Domian.Entities; //the whole module
using Routes = MyProject.Api.Contract.Routes.Http;  //an aliased single class

I bet Java had this too, C# us still mostly Java: Microsoft Edition.

A method in an interface (or a function in a trait or equivalent) should be unequivocal, as it’s literally a contract.

I think there’s nuance in the private scope, especially in variable names, but I’d still expect the name to be fairly explanatory. Maybe not EnsureUserCreated(UserDto userData), but still EnsureCreated(UserDto user).