Running *.cs file without a project will be possible in .NET 10 (youtu.be)

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Like dotnet run app.cs. C# is becoming a scripting language :)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I doubt this would change anything that was already built in C# but it enables the use of C# for smaller independent scripts. Stuff you might use Python, Bash or Powershell for. It still requires a runtime so not quite as portable as Bash/Pwsh but I'd take a C# script over a Python one most days.

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