9 engineers on Hacker News describe using LINQ first-hand: 4 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“so much churn with Webforms/MVC, LinqToSQL/various Entity Framework versions, all the WPF/WCF stuff”
regret · production · romanhn · 2022-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my favorite feature is Linq. With Linq you can query any data source using native type safe C# syntax”
endorse · production · scarface74 · 2017-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Defining indexes using LINQ works great in 95% of cases, but those 5% of cases where it doesn't are a PITA to debug.”
mixed · production · jrudolph · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then I needed to do some C# work and I really liked LINQ.”
endorse · production · a-saleh · 2016-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not a great fan of LINQ if I'm honest... there be dragons.”
regret · production · batou · 2015-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“However, I LOVED .net functions, especially LINQ !”
endorse · production · ParanoidShroom · 2015-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Things I have become an expert in that are now useless to me and probably not valued by an employer”
regret · production · pkteison · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But the logic that I have successfully used LINQ on: operates on lists of objects, not database queries.”
endorse · production · WorkerBee · 2010-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ServiceStack OrmLite (along with Linq2Sql + Dapper)”
neutral · production · 1 yr · mythz · 2012-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?