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Until quite recently, the reasonably feature complete open source libraries available for things like DICOM or HL7 were old C/C++ libraries, Java, and C#. That
by nitwit005 19d ago
Until quite recently, the reasonably feature complete open source libraries available for things like DICOM or HL7 were old C/C++ libraries, Java, and C#. That often created a choice between Java and C#. People not doing Windows based development tend not to be interested in C#.
- adzm 19d agoCross platform C# is certainly getting huge in healthcare and medtech recently though.
- pjmlp 19d agoIs it? My experience from 2014 - 2018, was that C# was only used in the lifesciences software for Windows, and as wrappers around device drivers mostly written in COM. Everything that was done on the backend side was done in Java, although there were some exceptions for .NET deployments. So we ended up with mixed skills teams where depending on the ticket, you would be coding Java or C#.
- doublepg23 17d agoIME this decade a lot of people are using C# for Azure 'serverless' deployments.