New Project Templates for top-level programs in C# 9

With C# 9 on the horizon, we are already able to start building top-level programs in C#:

I think it would make sense to build a new project template that includes a top-level program in C# with a Program.cs file and a csproj file. The code in the Program.cs file would be as simple as this:

using System;

await Console.Out.WriteLineAsync("Hello, World!");

Before I built the PR, I want to ask if this was something your team was willing to consider at this point?

There’s some exciting stuff happening in this space, and it would be great to point people at a simple template to get started. I even saw some of the ASP.NET team on Twitter showing off top-level programs that host a simple HTTP API in a few lines of code.

[vlada-shubina]

This was already done for .NET 6. The templates are using top-level programs now. Closing

[genalt]

@seesharprun thank you for the proposal, at the current stage of the .Net 5 release, we are not going to add a new template to the SDK. But you can add it yourself and I will update the list of available templates, maintained by the community. From our side we can include these changes only into our template in the next major .Net release (and C# 10).

I am keeping this issue open.