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"Use always a StringBuilder" - Internet myths

Use always a StringBuilder

That is what you can read from time to time. The basic idea is, that a StringBuilder is "better" to be defined.

Why are people telling that lie? Let's discuss this and see what it isn't true.

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Create a low allocation and faster StringBuilder - Span in Action

.NET ships a nice StringBuilder since the dawn of time or at least since the beginning of the framework itself. The intention is simple: If we need to concatenate a lot of strings we can't rely on the + operator as we introduce a lot of unnecessary allocations plus it is slow! That is where the StringBuilder jumps into the picture.

Why is that? Why is the StringBuilder better? And can we do better? Spoiler: Yes!

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The Trie - A powerful data structure

A Trie is a common data structure used for example for auto completing words. We will discover how to built our own Trie and check how fast he competes against a "normal" Hashset.

Also we will build a TypeAHead input component which automatically offers us some suggestion based on our input. Of course, we will use our newly created Trie.

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A story about boxing / unboxing and string interpolation in C#

A story about boxing / unboxing and string interpolation in C#. What has string interpolation to do with boxing / unboxing and what's the impact?

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