let dialogRef = dialog.open(UserProfileComponent,  { height: '400px’,  width: '600px’  });

dialogRef.afterClosed().subscribe(result => {
   console.log(`Dialog result: ${result}`);
});
dialogRef.close('value');

@Component({/* ... */})
export class YourDialog {

   constructor(public dialogRef: MatDialogRef<YourDialog>) { }

   closeDialog() {
      this.dialogRef.close('Value….!’);
   }
}

<h2 mat-dialog-title>Delete all</h2>
<mat-dialog-content>Are you sure?</mat-dialog-content>
<mat-dialog-actions>
    <button mat-button mat-dialog-close>No</button>
    <!-- Can optionally provide a result for the closing dialog. -->
    <button mat-button [mat-dialog-close]="true">Yes</button>
</mat-dialog-actions>

<mat-toolbar color="primary">
  <button mat-button fxHide fxHide.xs="false" (click)="toggleSidenav.emit()">
    <mat-icon>menu</mat-icon>
  </button>

  <span>Contact Manager</span>

  <span fxFlex="1 1 auto"></span>
  <button mat-button [matMenuTriggerFor]="menu">
    <mat-icon>more_vert</mat-icon>
  </button>
  <mat-menu #menu="matMenu">
    <button mat-menu-item>New Contact</button>
  </mat-menu>
</mat-toolbar>

 <button mat-menu-item (click)="openAddContactDialog()">New Contact</button>

 ng g c contact-manager/components/new-contact-dialog --no-spec

import { NewContactDialogComponent } from "./components/new-contact-dialog/new-contact-dialog.component";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    NewContactDialogComponent],
  entryComponents: [
    NewContactDialogComponent
  ]
})
export class ContactManagerModule { }

import { Component, EventEmitter, OnInit, Output } from "@angular/core";
import { MatDialog } from "@angular/material";

import { NewContactDialogComponent } from "../new-contact-dialog/new-contact-dialog.component";

@Component({
  selector: "app-toolbar",
  templateUrl: "./toolbar.component.html",
  styleUrls: ["./toolbar.component.css"]
})
export class ToolbarComponent implements OnInit {

  @Output() toggleSidenav = new EventEmitter<void>();

  constructor(private dialog: MatDialog) { }

  ngOnInit() { }

  openAddContactDialog(): void {
    const dialogRef = this.dialog.open(NewContactDialogComponent, { width: "450px" });
    dialogRef.afterClosed().subscribe(result => {
      console.log("The dialog was closed", result);
    });
  }
}

<h2 mat-dialog-title>Add new contact</h2>
<mat-dialog-content>
  <div fxLayout="column">

  </div>
</mat-dialog-content>
<mat-dialog-actions>
  <button mat-button color="primary" (click)="save()">
    <mat-icon>save</mat-icon> Save
  </button>
  <button mat-button color="primary" (click)="dismiss()">
    <mat-icon>cancel</mat-icon> Cancel
  </button>
</mat-dialog-actions>

import { Component, OnInit } from "@angular/core";
import { MatDialogRef } from "@angular/material";

@Component()
export class NewContactDialogComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor(
    private dialogRef: MatDialogRef<NewContactDialogComponent>
  ) { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  save() {
  }

  dismiss() {
    this.dialogRef.close(null);
  }
}

import { User } from "../../models/user";

@Component()
export class NewContactDialogComponent implements OnInit {

  avatars = ["user1", "user2", "user3", "user4", "user5", "user6", "user7", "user8"];
  user: User = { id: 0, birthDate: new Date(), name: "", avatar: "", bio: "", userNotes: null };

    <mat-form-field>
      <mat-select placeholder="Avatar" [(ngModel)]="user.avatar">
        <mat-select-trigger>
          <mat-icon svgIcon="{{user.avatar}}"></mat-icon> {{ user.avatar }}
        </mat-select-trigger>
        <mat-option *ngFor="let avatar of avatars" [value]="avatar">
          <mat-icon svgIcon="{{avatar}}"></mat-icon> {{ avatar }}
        </mat-option>
      </mat-select>
    </mat-form-field>

    <mat-form-field>
      <input matInput placeholder="Name" #name="ngModel" [(ngModel)]="user.name" required>
      <mat-error *ngIf="name.invalid && name.touched">You must enter a name</mat-error>
    </mat-form-field>

    <mat-form-field>
      <input matInput [matDatepicker]="picker" placeholder="Born" [(ngModel)]="user.birthDate">
      <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for]="picker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
      <mat-datepicker #picker></mat-datepicker>
    </mat-form-field>

    <mat-form-field>
      <textarea matInput placeholder="Bio" [(ngModel)]="user.bio"></textarea>
    </mat-form-field>

<mat-dialog-content>
  <div fxLayout="column">

  </div>
</mat-dialog-content>

namespace MaterialAspNetCoreBackend.WebApp.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class UsersController : Controller
    {
        private readonly IUsersService _usersService;

        public UsersController(IUsersService usersService)
        {
            _usersService = usersService ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(usersService));
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public async Task<IActionResult> Post([FromBody] User user)
        {
            if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                return BadRequest(ModelState);
            }
            await _usersService.AddUserAsync(user);
            return Created("", user);
        }
    }
}

@Injectable({
  providedIn: "root"
})
export class UserService {

  private usersSource = new BehaviorSubject<User>(null);
  usersSourceChanges$ = this.usersSource.asObservable();

  constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }

  addUser(user: User): Observable<User> {
    const headers = new HttpHeaders({ "Content-Type": "application/json" });
    return this.http
      .post<User>("/api/users", user, { headers: headers }).pipe(
        map(response => {
          const addedUser = response || {} as User;
          this.notifyUsersSourceHasChanged(addedUser);
          return addedUser;
        }),
        catchError((error: HttpErrorResponse) => throwError(error))
      );
  }

  notifyUsersSourceHasChanged(user: User) {
    this.usersSource.next(user);
  }
}

 return Created("", user);

import { UserService } from "../../services/user.service";

@Component()
export class NewContactDialogComponent {

  user: User = { id: 0, birthDate: new Date(), name: "", avatar: "", bio: "", userNotes: null };

  constructor(
    private dialogRef: MatDialogRef<NewContactDialogComponent>,
    private userService: UserService
  ) { }

  save() {
    this.userService.addUser(this.user).subscribe(data => {
      console.log("Saved user", data);
      this.dialogRef.close(data);
    });
  }
}

import { UserService } from "../../services/user.service";

@Component()
export class SidenavComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {

  users: User[] = [];
  subscription: Subscription | null = null;

  constructor(
    private userService: UserService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.subscription = this.userService.usersSourceChanges$.subscribe(user => {
      if (user) {
        this.users.push(user);
      }
    });
  }

  ngOnDestroy() {
    if (this.subscription) {
      this.subscription.unsubscribe();
    }
  }
}

  save() {
    this.userService.addUser(this.user).subscribe(data => {
      console.log("Saved user", data);
      this.dialogRef.close(data);
    });

  openAddContactDialog(): void {
    const dialogRef = this.dialog.open(NewContactDialogComponent, { width: "450px" });
    dialogRef.afterClosed().subscribe(result => {
      console.log("The dialog was closed", result);
    });
  }

@Component()
export class ToolbarComponent {

  @Output() toggleSidenav = new EventEmitter<void>();

  constructor(private dialog: MatDialog, private snackBar: MatSnackBar,  private router: Router) { }

  openAddContactDialog(): void {
    const dialogRef = this.dialog.open(NewContactDialogComponent, { width: "450px" });
    dialogRef.afterClosed().subscribe((result: User) => {
      console.log("The dialog was closed", result);
      if (result) {
        this.openSnackBar(`${result.name} contact has been added.`, "Navigate").onAction().subscribe(() => {
          this.router.navigate(["/contactmanager", result.id]);
        });
      }
    });
  }

  openSnackBar(message: string, action: string): MatSnackBarRef<SimpleSnackBar> {
    return this.snackBar.open(message, action, {
      duration: 5000,
    });
  }
}

Have you ever been stuck on a hard problem, then gone and browsed photos of cats for awhile, then afterward you just magically knew the answer? 

Microbenchmark testing Python, Numba, Mojo, Dart, C/gcc, Rust, Go, JavaScript, C#, Java, Kotlin, Pascal, Ruby, Haskell performance in Mandelbrot set generation 

Benchmarking several languages/tools with Mandelbrot set generation. 1-to-1 translation of code from one language to another. No SIMD, no multithreading (except prange() trick with Numba), no tricks (e.g. skipping sqrt), a bare minimum of language specific adjustments to make the code nicer while keeping all loops and operations in place. 

What Is Programming And What Do Programmers Do? 

[DataContract(IsReference = true)]
public class Post
{
    public Post()
    {
        comments = new HashSet<Comments>();
    }
    
    [DataMember]
    public int PostId { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public string Title { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public virtual ICollection<Comment> Comments { get; set; }
}

[DataContract(IsReference=true)]
public class Comment
{
    [DataMember]
    public int CommentId { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public int PostId { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public string CommentText { get; set; }
    [DataMember]
    public virtual Post Post { get; set; }
}

public class EFRecipesEntities : DbContext
{
    public EFRecipesEntities() : base("name=EFRecipesEntities") {}

    public DbSet<Post> posts;
    public DbSet<Comment> comments;
}

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="Recipe2ConnectionString"
    connectionString="Data Source=.;
    Initial Catalog=EFRecipes;
    Integrated Security=True;
    MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
    [OperationContract]
    void Cleanup();
    [OperationContract]
    Post GetPostByTitle(string title);
    [OperationContract]
    Post SubmitPost(Post post);
    [OperationContract]
    Comment SubmitComment(Comment comment);
    [OperationContract]
    void DeleteComment(Comment comment);
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (var client = new ServiceReference2.Service1Client())
        {
            // cleanup previous data
            client.Cleanup();
            // insert a post
            var post = new Post { Title = "POCO Proxies" };
            post = client.SubmitPost(post);
            // update the post
            post.Title = "Change Tracking Proxies";
            client.SubmitPost(post);
            // add a comment
            var comment1 = new Comment { CommentText = "Virtual Properties are cool!", PostId = post.PostId };
            var comment2 = new Comment { CommentText = "I use ICollection<T> all the time", PostId = post.PostId };
            comment1 = client.SubmitComment(comment1);
            comment2 = client.SubmitComment(comment2);
            // update a comment
            comment1.CommentText = "How do I use ICollection<T>?";
            client.SubmitComment(comment1);
            // delete comment 1
            client.DeleteComment(comment1);
            // get posts with comments
            var p = client.GetPostByTitle("Change Tracking Proxies");
            Console.WriteLine("Comments for post: {0}", p.Title);
            foreach (var comment in p.Comments)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("\tComment: {0}", comment.CommentText);
            }
        }
    }
}

Summary

It’s pretty easy to differentiate use cases for Result and exceptions. Whenever the failure is something you expect and know how to deal with – catch it at the lowest level possible and convert into a Result instance. If you don’t know how to deal with it – let it propagate and interrupt the current business operation. Don’t catch exceptions you don’t know what to do about.