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C# is an excellent language with an great ecosystem and lots of jobs available. Also, if you ever want to go a bit more functional, F# is excellent. My persona

C# is an excellent language with an great ecosystem and lots of jobs available. Also, if you ever want to go a bit more functional, F# is excellent. My personal reason for avoiding it is purely political: I don't trust Microsoft. I try to not rely on languages that are controlled by a single monopolistic corporations. Considering the recent case of the golang compiler planning on getting telemetry, I feel validated in that decision. As for game development, I think the game engine of choice will already dictate what one should learn. Unity is still king of casual and mobile games, so if that is your niche, learning C# is a no-brainer. Plus Godot has decent C# support now, if you ever need to change horses. As for more complex 3d games, Unreal 5 is just insanely good. Nanite and Lumen offer tremendous improvements in both development experience and end result. Here learning some C++ is advised but funny enough, there are actually Nim bindings as well. If you don't mind getting into somewhat untested waters, Nim might be a very good choice here.

deafpolygon 4y ago
> Considering the recent case of the golang compiler getting telemetry Is this for certain? I thought this was still in the discussion phase.
- cardanome 4y ago
  I should have phrased that as "planning to". After the significant push-back it seems like are considering doing only opt-in telemetry[1] which would be acceptable. So not that bad for now but who knows. Once telemetry is in place, they might try to change it to opt-out at a later date when less push-back is expected. Still setting a problematic precedent and shows why corporate control about a programming language might become problematic. [1] https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-opt-in https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-opt-in
pjmlp 4y ago
When those corporations not put the money into the work, even free beer C and C++ compilers suffer, see clang current state of ISO support.
brudgers 4y ago
Not trying to change your politics. People hate Microsoft for many reasons. C# has an ECMA standard (334). I.E. it has a public specification. Some versions also have an ISO Standard. https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-334/ https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...
sebazzz 4y ago
> I try to not rely on languages that are controlled by a single monopolistic corporations Only languages or frameworks too? Because there aren't many which aren't controlled by a single entity. Sometimes it is just not that obvious.

deafpolygon 4y ago

> Considering the recent case of the golang compiler getting telemetry Is this for certain? I thought this was still in the discussion phase.

cardanome 4y ago
I should have phrased that as "planning to". After the significant push-back it seems like are considering doing only opt-in telemetry[1] which would be acceptable. So not that bad for now but who knows. Once telemetry is in place, they might try to change it to opt-out at a later date when less push-back is expected. Still setting a problematic precedent and shows why corporate control about a programming language might become problematic. [1] https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-opt-in https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-opt-in

pjmlp 4y ago

When those corporations not put the money into the work, even free beer C and C++ compilers suffer, see clang current state of ISO support.

brudgers 4y ago

Not trying to change your politics. People hate Microsoft for many reasons. C# has an ECMA standard (334). I.E. it has a public specification. Some versions also have an ISO Standard. https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-334/ https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...

sebazzz 4y ago

> I try to not rely on languages that are controlled by a single monopolistic corporations Only languages or frameworks too? Because there aren't many which aren't controlled by a single entity. Sometimes it is just not that obvious.