Even
though C# 6.0 is not yet out of the door, the C# team have now started
work on C# 7.0 and have had two design meetings already this month.
dotnet/roslyn matters have recently been transferred from CodePlex to GitHub and here are links to the meeting notes.
It
will be seen that there are a large number of themes and features to be
explored - enough for several future versions, never mind one!
However,
C# needs to keep up with newer languages such as Scala, Rust and Swift
(not to mention Microsoft's own F#) which already have some of this
stuff built in so I suspect that the pace of adding new features will
increase in future now the compiler has been rewritten in C# itself.
Let's
hope they don't make the language too big and complicated as a result.
Some of the discussions are already sounding a bit like quantum physics
to me :)
One
good thing is that the language will continue to be developed as a
'benign dictatorship' by the C# team - with Anders Hejlsberg having the
ultimate say. However, there will be much more community input in future
as can be seen from the large number of comments these notes - and the
'proposals' for individual features which have been spun off from them -
have already generated.
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