java, 1.5 is finally adding generics
Yes, I heard about that, FWIW C# 2.0 plans to have generics as well, along with (from what i have seen) true anonymous methods, iterators and partial classes (maybe like Eiffel's deffered classes, I am not 100% sure I still have stuff on my "to be read" list about this).
However my chief beef with them, and this still remains, is they have zero interest in anything but Windows
Well, can't argue with that, but are you aware of Rotor? It runs on BSD and Mac OS X, granted I tried it early on and opted instead for Mono, but it at least shows M$ cares ;-P
and the Mono folks are doing their best to clone something they really don't like
Not being a Mono folk, I cannot really speak for them, but I get the impression they actually do like it.
I suppose if you are on a Windows platform, it's probably better than Java (no doubt, hard to be worse)
I'm on Mac OS X,.. and I like it better than Java ;-) but i clearly have some issues, so dont take my word for it.
How is the API?
A lot better than the old Win SDK (although my experience with that is very limited), from what I understand though, alot of what was so bad about it before was that it was never really "designed", but instead just clobbered together over the years.

The C# class libraries are very similar to Java, but being not so strict/purist about OO there are some places where it is alot cleaner. On some level they are very much the same since they provide alot of the same basic services.

And our poster is still looking for a good employer language. C# ain't there yet, except in the early adopter type of shops (which, IMHO, are the suicidal shops).
I disagree, my boss has been finding more and more demand for it out there, which was one of the reasons I learned it, so we can get some of that work. We are consultants, so we have to flow along with the trends a lot. It has actually been out for quite a while too, I have BETA release discs going back several years, so its not really early adopter territory.

And again, no matter what you think about the evil that is M$, the C# and the CLR are pretty well designed and throught out concepts, really not too different that the Perl6/Parrot stuff if you really think about it. But anyway that discussion is for another node.

-stvn

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: C++, C# or Java by stvn
in thread C++, C# or Java by Anonymous Monk

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