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In theory, true. In practise, they are most popularly used for the Microsoft and Android ecosystems, respectively. I’ve reworded it to platform-oriented.
by mikl 5y ago
In theory, true. In practise, they are most popularly used for the Microsoft and Android ecosystems, respectively. I’ve reworded it to platform-oriented.
- philliphaydon 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean by platform-oriented.
- mikl 5y agoWell, I’m not trying to invent scientific classifications here, but the common reason to choose one of said languages is to use them with the Microsoft/Apple/Android ecosystems, respectively.
- philliphaydon 5y agoOk, I'm just trying to understand. Not trying to make you create a scientific classiciation :D I just disagree as a .NET developer.
- mikl 5y agoI could be mistaken, but I can’t remember last time I heard of a C# project that wasn’t either targetting Windows as a platform (whether server or desktop) or running against some other Microsoft-thing like Xamarin. In the early days of Mono, there were some attempts at using C# outside Microsoft circles, like building Gnome-apps with GTK#, but most of those projects have faded away.
- philliphaydon 5y agoI have around 500 c# .net lambdas. And several linux servers with .net on it. Also do almost all of my work On linux. Tho I’m starting to switch back to windows 11 with wsl2…
- The_rationalist 5y agoThis is such an outdated view, Kotlin is taking on the server by storm and has first class integration with the biggest ecosystem in the world