C# and the need (lack of) for move semantics

Someone recently asked me why C# does not support move semantics. Well, C# mostly deals with references, so you don’t have to to deal with copy constructors called on temporary objects. C# does support value types too but they are nearly always used for POD (plain old data) types. And when there is the need for a copy, what’s usually done is to implement an interface such as ICloneable. In the C# (and .NET) world, assignments are mostly reference copies. A reference variable takes the value of another reference variable. In summary, C# as a language does not have a need for move semantics.

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