Hi
I know this is a bit off-topic in this mailing list, but I also know that asking this question here will give me unbiased answers. My daytime job is secure and I am a very happy Object Pascal developers. I'm a firm believer in rather learning one language and being very proficient in it, that being a "jack of all trades, but master of none". I have learned and used my share of languages over the years, but prefer Object Pascal a lot more than any of the others.
But there comes a time, when I like to extend my knowledge a bit. Pick up some new skills and maybe ever carry those skills over to my daytime job and programming language.
From the start I have been a big fan of the Java programming language.
To me, it's a very clean and well designed language and is relatively easy to learn and understand. Just a shame the GUI performance was so bad, though that was many years back. I don't know if things have improved since.
Anyway, I want to extend my skills in the new years and start learning a new language (make no mistake, Free Pascal is still what's paying my bills every month, and that's not going to change any time soon). My requirements is something that supports multiple platforms and that is one of the mainstream languages. I don't want to learn some obscure language like D or F# that nobody would hire you for - there just isn't a commercial demand for such languages, no matter how good features they have.
Anyway, what I see as mainstream at the moment is Java and C#. Both seem to be well designed, commercially acceptable (from a job hiring point of view) and appears to be clean code. Scripting / interpreted languages like Perl etc are out! So for me, it seems a choice between C# and Java. So far I am leaning towards Java, because it's more open (no big giant monopoly hanging over it), been around for years and is commercially viable. Development tools, documentation etc are plenty full! Plus it's well supported on just about any OS and device.
* What's your thoughts between Java vs C#?
* Have you got a better choice in mind and why?
Regards,
- Graeme -
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