What's the next big thing after LINQ?

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Published on 2010-03-08T01:33:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 1:35 UTC
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I started using LINQ (Language Integrated Query) when it was still in beta, more specifically Microsoft .NET LINQ Preview (May 2006). Almost 4 years have passed and here we are using LINQ in a lot of projects for the most diverse tasks.

I even wrote my final college project based on LINQ. You see how I like it.

LINQ and more recently PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) give our jobs a great boost when it comes to more programming power and less lines of code leading us to more expressive and readable code.

I keep thinking what could be the next big language improvement for C# after LINQ.

I know there are some promissing language features coming as Code Contracts, etc, but nothing having the impact that LINQ had.

What do you think could be the next big thing?

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