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I work with C# at my work and it is actually a very nice language. If you haven't checked it out, you probably should. For obvious reasons it hasn't reached the

I work with C# at my work and it is actually a very nice language. If you haven't checked it out, you probably should. For obvious reasons it hasn't reached the hip crowd yet, but if you play with it you will see some very positive things.

zvikara 18y ago
C#: Write once, run anywhere.
- wizlb 18y ago
  really?
- chaostheory 18y ago
  In my experience Mono blows for C#, though it could be good for other things. 1) it's always behind the current version of C# 2) even for past versions it still doesn't fully support C# I'm not sure about this one, but to use mono commercially don't you need to get a paid license for SUSE?
snprbob86 18y ago
To clarify: C# 2.0 and up is a very nice language. C# 3.0 is a totally bad ass cool language. C# 1 is Java minus the Java suck C# 2 is C# 1 minus much of the C# 1 suck C# 3 is C# 2 plus a ton of totally cool functional language stuff C# 4 (not yet released) will have some cool dynamic language stuff
- chaostheory 18y ago
  I agree that the language is essentially a much better Java, but C# is missing Java's (and pretty much most other language's) community; namely the open source part. (Could be my inexperience - only been using it a little over a year but) I've found myself having to make wheels that should have already been built. this would have been fine in the pre-internet era, but nowadays it's just a bit annoying, and no I still don't feel like paying for closed source libs I think codeplex is the right direction, but MS needs to give open source for C# stronger support (instead of ignoring stuff like nUnit). Another criticism, compared to other languages, is the cruft attached to C#. Like Java, C# is a 'you kinda need to use a heavy IDE to make life easier' language.
  - snprbob86 18y ago
    Most open source C/C++, Java, Python, Ruby, OCaml, and other libraries can be compiled against MSIL and called natively from C# or consumed as binaries and invoked via common C calling conventions. As for the IDE dependency complaint, I think this applies more towards some of the standard libraries such as WPF, WinForms, ASPX, ADO.net, etc. I think it is a very valid complaint, but I don't think it is about the language itself.

zvikara 18y ago

C#: Write once, run anywhere.

wizlb 18y ago
really?
chaostheory 18y ago
In my experience Mono blows for C#, though it could be good for other things. 1) it's always behind the current version of C# 2) even for past versions it still doesn't fully support C# I'm not sure about this one, but to use mono commercially don't you need to get a paid license for SUSE?

snprbob86 18y ago

To clarify: C# 2.0 and up is a very nice language. C# 3.0 is a totally bad ass cool language. C# 1 is Java minus the Java suck C# 2 is C# 1 minus much of the C# 1 suck C# 3 is C# 2 plus a ton of totally cool functional language stuff C# 4 (not yet released) will have some cool dynamic language stuff

chaostheory 18y ago
I agree that the language is essentially a much better Java, but C# is missing Java's (and pretty much most other language's) community; namely the open source part. (Could be my inexperience - only been using it a little over a year but) I've found myself having to make wheels that should have already been built. this would have been fine in the pre-internet era, but nowadays it's just a bit annoying, and no I still don't feel like paying for closed source libs I think codeplex is the right direction, but MS needs to give open source for C# stronger support (instead of ignoring stuff like nUnit). Another criticism, compared to other languages, is the cruft attached to C#. Like Java, C# is a 'you kinda need to use a heavy IDE to make life easier' language.
- snprbob86 18y ago
  Most open source C/C++, Java, Python, Ruby, OCaml, and other libraries can be compiled against MSIL and called natively from C# or consumed as binaries and invoked via common C calling conventions. As for the IDE dependency complaint, I think this applies more towards some of the standard libraries such as WPF, WinForms, ASPX, ADO.net, etc. I think it is a very valid complaint, but I don't think it is about the language itself.