They introduced the concept of top-level scripts a little while back - though I don't know whether its just syntactic sugar such that when it compiles down to IL everything just gets wrapped in a main class.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals...

You still need to have a class to put your functions in, but they can act only as a namespace, like `Math.DivRem()`.

C# has been receiving many functional features over the years including pattern matching, composable data processing (Linq), tuples, and immutable data types. I'm looking forward to a good implementation of discriminated unions now.

"classitis" is much diminished

You know about F# right? https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/languages/fsharp

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fs...

Dotnet has compilers for C#, VB and F# and they can all share the same frameworks and libraries. C# is the most popular.

I’ve heard it’s multiparadigm now, but I can’t yet substantiate that. Even if it is, I don’t know if it’s JavaScript-level (so functional they rewrote SICP in JS), Ruby-level (just a sprinkle of lambdas and pattern matching), or somewhere in between.

I’ll be sure to post an article once I find out. :-)