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Yeah C is good for lots of things, but not great for developing a desktop UI in Windows, when compared to C# for example. You'd be going back to the dark ages o
by damian2000 14y ago
Yeah C is good for lots of things, but not great for developing a desktop UI in Windows, when compared to C# for example. You'd be going back to the dark ages of Windows SDK development if you want to do that part in C.
- kokey 14y agoThat's assuming that in 5 years from now Windows is going to be the popular UI platform. If much of the program is not about the UI, then C is a good choice, since whatever finger nail mounted laser projection display computer will become popular in the future, you'll have ANSI C projects ported to it quickly. C#, I'm not so sure.
- huhtenberg 14y agoC# is not that great either. It's the IDE and all the supporting libraries that make a difference. And in this lies the problem - what if these libraries change, what if the IDE goes away or it license changes. Chances are that in a few years your UI code won't even build with then-current version of the C# toolset. On the other hand, C-based UI that depends solely on <windows.h> will.