Re: Language support for C# in org-babel

[Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>]

On Mon, Jan 06 2025, poverobuosodonati <poverobuosodonati@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I am a newbie in that I've never contributed so far. Thus, I would like to start this journey with pinging the mailing list first as it is indicated in the contributing documentation.
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Welcome.

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> As far as I know, there is currently no language support for C# withi org-babel.
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> As this (evaluating C# code-blocks) is occasionally helpful for my
> workflow, I went ahead and wrote an integration following the
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Have you looked at ob-C.el or ob-java.el? I am not sure how similar C#
is to either C/C++/D or Java, but it may make sense to try to extend one
of those.

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> Are there any objections against me trying to upstream this addition?
> I would go ahead and try to open a pull request following the
> guidelines from this documentation
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> is there a better way/no need for it in the first place?

See the instructions at

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#first-patch

Best regards,
Leo