Keeping up with C# development

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Hi

it is amazing how much information we have available nowadays. I remember when I started studding programming (some 30 years ago :) ), it was really hard to find information (ok, I used to live in a small city in Brazil and could not read English at all, but still, there were not a lot of information available about computers / programming). 

The situation did not improve much when I went to college (3 ~ 4 years after my first contact with an amazing Apple II clone); surely I had access to more books but unfortunately most of them were in English, and did not cover much ground (at least the ones I had available).

Luckily, nowadays we have plenty of information available (actually much more than what any single person can imagine consuming), which bring us to the topic of this post: As a C# developers we have some great resources at our disposal; from the language development perspective, in my opinion, every C# developer should, at least, be aware  of https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang, in their own words, the "official repo for C# language design". 

In that repository you can find documentation about existing and, most interesting, under development, language features. As an example, recently design documents for the upcoming C# 7.3 version have been pushed). There we can also find documents for each of the Design Meetings which can be invaluable information for those interested in following the language evolution more closely (here you can find a video describing the design process and how that repo is used).

Notice that you are not limited to consuming information. Since that repository is open, anyone can participate and add his/her own suggestions.

To summarize, if you are interested in following the development of C#, you should definitely keep an eye on that.

Happy codding.

Adriano