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I had to raise two kids so I couldn't find time to master both the Linux and Windows ecosystems so I chose the one they use at work. These days Microsoft has ma

I had to raise two kids so I couldn't find time to master both the Linux and Windows ecosystems so I chose the one they use at work. These days Microsoft has made me think more carefully about choosing platform and with their new proposals, Win11 and Edge The E-commerce Browser, I'm ready to jump onto Linux but how would I program that environment, when I have almost no experience in C? For me, the answer is .net. Thank you, Microsoft, for showing me a way out.

5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
Eh? you don't have to know C to develop for Linux. Most of us don't write C at all. I've written maybe a few thousand lines in all my life, the vast majority of them for ESP32.
- kreeben 5y ago
  Of course one doesn't have to program one's environment but I would never be on one where I couldn't.
  - ogogmad 5y ago
    I think you misunderstood the parent commenter. He said that he hasn't programmed much in C, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done much programming altogether. He's wondering why you ever felt that programming in Linux meant you had to use C. Many of the Linux APIs are written in C but there are wrappers for countless other languages, no? Many Linux people like to use Python, for instance. Unfortunately, it's a slow language for all sorts of incidental but hard-to-fix reasons. This has led people to look for alternatives. I think Go is increasingly used as an alternative, but it lacks features like operator overloading which are a necessity in certain areas. There's JVM languages like Java, Kotlin and Scala as well. Nim is up-and-coming. Some people use functional languages like Haskell and Common Lisp. C++ is widely used but not much loved.
    - kreeben 5y ago
      Thx, yes I might have. I know enough about all of those languages that you mentioned to realize, as a c-sharper I have it good. Java is a bit too weird for me. Python a bit too slow. C++ too hard, Haskel too functional ;) I realize of course that not all Linux users are C programmers. Given the opportunity to transfer my C# knowledge over to Linux, I'll take it.

5e92cb50239222b 5y ago

Eh? you don't have to know C to develop for Linux. Most of us don't write C at all. I've written maybe a few thousand lines in all my life, the vast majority of them for ESP32.

kreeben 5y ago
Of course one doesn't have to program one's environment but I would never be on one where I couldn't.
- ogogmad 5y ago
  I think you misunderstood the parent commenter. He said that he hasn't programmed much in C, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done much programming altogether. He's wondering why you ever felt that programming in Linux meant you had to use C. Many of the Linux APIs are written in C but there are wrappers for countless other languages, no? Many Linux people like to use Python, for instance. Unfortunately, it's a slow language for all sorts of incidental but hard-to-fix reasons. This has led people to look for alternatives. I think Go is increasingly used as an alternative, but it lacks features like operator overloading which are a necessity in certain areas. There's JVM languages like Java, Kotlin and Scala as well. Nim is up-and-coming. Some people use functional languages like Haskell and Common Lisp. C++ is widely used but not much loved.
  - kreeben 5y ago
    Thx, yes I might have. I know enough about all of those languages that you mentioned to realize, as a c-sharper I have it good. Java is a bit too weird for me. Python a bit too slow. C++ too hard, Haskel too functional ;) I realize of course that not all Linux users are C programmers. Given the opportunity to transfer my C# knowledge over to Linux, I'll take it.