Abusing C# - Jon Skeet

That's an interesting quirk of StringBuilder. I'm actually quite horrified that Length is a getter AND setter. Jon Skeet has a nice link to this video about all the weird things possible with (and weird ways to break) C#. But, as someone who has to read and fix code like this on a daily basis, no one should ever do this. This post's title should be: Look at this weird thing StringBuilder can do. DO NOT DO THIS, EVER! Just use `string.Join` or `FormUrlEncodedContent` (if you're building a query string). It's easier to reason about and you don't need to know the internals of StringBuilder to understand.

You may be judging the community by the wrong metric. Microsoft's documentation is excellent and extensive. I use stackoverflow less than once a week (and only as a last resort). I never use online guides (outside of MSDN). The C# youtube videos I watch are more like this: link to this video than any sort of guide. I'm on this subreddit while taking a break, I wouldn't come here to solve a problem. There's a streak of individualism I've noticed in the c# community. It's a builder's language (as opposed to an integrator's language), so a core skill that other c# developers push you to grow (at least in my circles) is the ability to build whatever you want using only what Microsoft provides and your…