C# is the past, the present and the future

Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by WayneDB on Friday January 11, 2013 @12:28PM (#5043750)

So, nobody should learn a language unless it's the "default language" for a platform? What is Python, Ruby or PHP the default language of? Should anybody be learning Perl, Haskell or Objective-C in your opinion?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by benologist on Friday January 11, 2013 @02:31PM (#5044488)

I'm not saying nobody should but I bet a shitload more people go with natively supported, which might be a better term than default.

And yeah this isn't at all specific to C#. Anything not natively supported suffers - just ask Flash who in a handful of years have gone from a defacto standard to a dinosaur.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by gebe on Saturday January 12, 2013 @01:29AM (#5046755)

I would say the experience is what matters. The user doesn't care what technology the developer used. If you can make gorgeous, fluid and speedy native apps with Mono and C# (which is very much possible) while at the same time making it easier to do cross platform development and deployment then why not.

[ Parent | on HN ]