I personally like C#. If you use Gtk for the GUI, it's cross platform using Mono. Lots of closed and open source widgets, easy to write your own, and runs very

I personally like C#. If you use Gtk for the GUI, it's cross platform using Mono. Lots of closed and open source widgets, easy to write your own, and runs very quickly. IMHO, the networking stack in C# is much more robust and provides better performance than in Java, and you can static link the runtimes to the app, making deployment of installer-free apps relatively easy using embedded resources. Cheers! Randy