Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 4th Feb 2004 05:34 UTC
According to statistics, Java continues to have the crown of the most used VM-based platform in the industry. However, Microsoft's C# and .NET gain ground every day. While C# might or might not overcome Java in the following years, the fact remains that more and more programmers want the choice of C# among their developer tools. So, where does this situation leave Apple?
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"Others will claim that C# and .NET is not important, but these people will probably be non-Windows developers"
I'd say people who say C# and .NET are very important are C#/.NET only developers. No serious programmer I know thinks .NET is that great. I bought a C# book and actually was disapointed. When I went from C++/Visual Basic 6 to Cocoa/Objective-C it was easy and MUCH much easier to develop easy to advanced applications. Looking at C# after learning Cocoa I couldn't see any huge advantage of using it.
I talked to my teachers who meet recently with many representatives from several major companies and they said the reps they meet with had the impression .NET was a bad thing overall.