There are a few I’m aware of:

  1. Rust-style use (multiple imports per statement, renaming items using as)
  2. Java-style import (single import per statement, no renaming (afaik))
  3. Zig-style let xlib = @import("xlib") (imports as assignments)
  4. C-style #include (no importing, just pastes the code of the named file)
  • dan@upvote.au
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    3 days ago

    You also don’t have to use imports at all in C# code - you can just reference everything absolutely using the full namespace and class name.

    That’s a big difference compared to the other languages. C# automatically loads the correct assembly (.NET library) on the first call to something contained within it, whereas languages like Python require an import statement because that’s what loads the library. I don’t think autoloading is very common - C#, PHP, Ruby and Perl use it, but I can’t think of other languages that do.