Why Most .NET Developers Misuse Records — and What It’s Costing Them

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Most .NET devs are misusing records—and it's costing them more than they think. Memory overhead. Identity tracking bugs. EF Core confusion.

I broke it all down in my latest Medium post: Why Most .NET Developers Misuse Records and What It’s Costing Them Read here

Inside:

Why value equality isn't always the win you expect

How EF Core gets tripped up by records

Benchmark graphs showing real clone costs in hot loops

When to ditch the with expression and reach for a constructor

This one's for every architect, lead dev, and performance-obsessed coder who wants to use records right.

️ Read it. Share it. Argue with it. Let’s rethink how we use C# records.

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