Any Plan For CSharp Scripts In Dynamo ?

[chuongmep]

I'm curious, does the team have any plans for bringing C# script same with python script support in Dynamo ?

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[QilongTang]

@chuongmep Do you mean to support C# coding directly inside Dynamo like how user can leverage Python right now?

[chuongmep]

Correct, I think the extension makes it easier for the user to choose. Rhino has adopted this and has delivered high performance. Something like that : C# script:

int a =10;
int b = 20;
OUT = a+b ;

Same with python script:

a = 10
b = 20
OUT = a+b

[QilongTang]

@Amoursol @jasonstratton @mjkkirschner I think this fall into the wishlist item so I am moving this there. But it worth discussion for sure.

[Amoursol]

@chuongmep - we will definitely discuss this as a wishlist item!

Could you please elaborate on what kind of uses you see for this that would be beneficial to you beyond ZeroTouch C# nodes today, or direct Python scripting?

[Thomas84]

I think the biggest advantage is to use the c# examples of the Revit API more easily. For programming beginners it is a very long journey until you can translate c# examples to Python. I like to see instead that the Revit API documentation and the VS sample solution of the SDK and the building coder samples will be extended with Python samples.

[chuongmep]

The benefits of this include:

• Increase the number of users who know how to code, Two languages ​​directly is good if someone doesn't want to use zero touch node, a lot of people tell me that they are not familiar with python, but for some people feel like it.
• Performance boost, I have to admit that C# has much better performance for this.
• Easy to refer to the sample code, we have a lot of sample code from C#, which is a big advantage. In addition, the sample code about C# is also a lot on Stack Overflow.
• Syntax is more explicit for some people who prefer a statically typed language.
• In the future, we can reuse the libraries available from .net without having to rewrite them
• The IDE in dynamo really doesn't hold many users, we can borrow an external IDE, Visual Studio is one of the best .NET support I've ever written, plus JetBrains and a few other things.