Why C# Is Not My Favorite Programming Language

[dozzie]

It boils down to "C# is not C++".

[yarper]

I guess more specifically, why can't I write C++ in C#.

As a side note, the i7 4770k produces somewhere in the region of one hundred thirty-three billion seven hundred forty million operations per second. 8GB is sixty four billion bits.

We don't really need micro optimisations and bitflags anymore. Premature optimisation causes loads more problems than it actually solves. That's why we have languages like Java and C#.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second

[mikescandy]

that was my same feeling. I'm a C# developer, and even though I consider myself a decent dev, I never thought of C# as a toy language. I guess I'm not that good.

[rtets]

No feature or optimisation is free

One must eventually compromise in every language/system at some cost according to the value to its intended user

Many of these genuinely interesting criticisms of C# are the "other edge" to the sword we love it for

[kinosang]

Why Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP, and etc is Not My Favorite Programming Languages. That's subjective and completely worthless for others.

[nvivo]

Agreed. Basically, he could have gone with almost every modern language there and the result would be the same.

[Avernar]

I actually prefer C++/CLI to C#. I use it for my UI code and can seamlessly call my C++ code to do the non-UI work.