Impressions of C#

"Since handling an event is so tedious, they are often quite generic and you have to check the arguments for what actually happened. The one good thing about it is it's clear OOP with no magic.

"Handling events in pure C/C++ usually involves callbacks with function pointer voodoo. Qt provides a very nice type safe layer with signals and slots, with an almost ideal syntax, but the implementation is questionable and magical.

"C# has events built into the language. A class can have events with specific arguments and can invoke them much like Qt signals. Events have types that identify their signatures, so it's type safe and no magic. However, that's also where it gets clunky. For every event with different arguments you need to also declare a delegate for the type (from what I understand but haven't read into yet, C# 3.0 provides some generics to make this less tedious). When connecting an event, you need to create an instance of the delegate."

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