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[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discriminated unions have been In The Works(tm) for quite a while. I believe they were cut from the C# 12 roadmap. But maybe C# 13?

I think a source-generation based approach similar to OneOf isn't unlikely.

[โ€“] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah unfortunately tacking them onto a 20 year old language is not easy.

It's great to see it being worked on but there is a long way to go.