Hey everyone!

After years and years as a third-party mode, I'm absolutely stoked to see (a) csharp-mode finally mainlined into Emacs.

Sorry about the "long form" for this email, but for me this completes an 8 year journey as the "main" semi-lone steward of the Emacs C# project, and for me this feels very much like a very personal project finally finding a new, proper home.

That we are here today is a big achievement, and I really want to call out everyone I know and remember who helped us get here.

First of all I want to thank Dylan R. E. Moonfire for the original csharp-mode implementantation. This is where it all started, way back. Thanks Dylan!

I also want to thank Dino Chiesa who kept maintaining it for several years, until around 2011.

In 2014 when Emacs 24.4 was released, the old code broke and I took over as a new maintainer. In that regard, I want to thank everyone who helped me out fixing and improving csharp-mode. Contributions big and small: They were all welcome and appreciated!

For that early period I want to extend a special thanks to Vasailij Schneidermann (or perhaps you know him as wasamasa). He was always eager to help and provided much needed support. As far as I can tell, he wasn't just there for me. He was there for the entire Emacs-community and seemingly still is. A hero and living legend!

I also want to thank Alan MacKenzie for his never endring patience when we were stuck in some cc-mode troubles we couldn't dig ourselves out of and when we were using cc-mode in undocumented ways we shouldn't be doing. Clearly a gentleman of the olde school. You have my utmost respects!

Yuan Fu obviously deserves a great big thanks, for making it possible to land our new tree-sitter based implementation, which currently is the one I feel closest attached to as of now. As such I really also should mention Tuấn-Anh Nguyễn, who really pioneered getting tree-sitter and Emacs being into being one thing, before this was even considered possible to do in Emacs core, prior to Yuan Fu's efforts.

Listing up "only" his major contributions to csharp-mode still makes for a long list. This person contributed by among other things:

• creating a new clean-room cc-mode based implementation, which could replace the old one, fixed bugs and now made it possible to even consider mainlining it into Emacs core, for the benefit of all Emacs-users.
• for being one of the first Emacs-users out there trying out getting tree-sitter based major-modes in Emacs a real thing. He authored the first tree-sitter-based Emacs-mode I know of.
  
• for pushing me into trying to make a new csharp-mode based on Yuan Fu's tree-sitter work in Emacs core, and then further improving on it.
• for working closely with everyone in Emacs-devel to make sure our latest work was up to the standards you guys expect, and making sure it could eventually get merged.

I'm ofcourse talking about Theodor Thornhill.

Theodor: You better believe I'm taking this merge as an early Christmas-present! Thank you for having the ambition and drive I lacked after years of "maintenance-mode" maintainership!

Stefan Monnier deserves an honest mention too. He helped us land this, just likes he helps everyone else. Thanks Stefan!

So...

While it may no longer be "my" csharp-mode nor "my" community maintaining it, I still definitely want to keep it close and will try to provide patches and improvements when I can.

Rumour has it Theoder isn't writing that much C# any more (while I do), so feel free to email me if you have issues or suggestions. I'll try to stay around :)