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0 pointsBeetleB1y ago0 comments

Ok. For anyone struggling with the second, the answers should be:

Lack of libraries.

Lack of good tools.

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My favourite languages are C# and C++, and sometimes I interview developers to work with them. Saying these languages are lacking libraries or good tools is unreasonable.

BeetleBOP1y ago

True, but it's trivial to come up with things to dislike in C++ :-)

Const-me1y ago

Great point on C++, but it’s harder for C#. The language and ecosystem are IMO pretty good.

I only hate that Microsoft stopped shipping modern .NET runtime with Windows. A few annoying things though, like the recent push towards AOT compilation (IMO strictly worse that JIT), and the lack of a good first-party cross platform GUI frameworks (for example Microsoft could compile d2d1.dll with DXVK, reimplement dwrite.dll API on top of FreeType / HarfBuzz, and copy-paste UWP).

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0 pointsBeetleB1y ago0 comments

Ok. For anyone struggling with the second, the answers should be:

Lack of libraries.

Lack of good tools.

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Const-me1y ago

My favourite languages are C# and C++, and sometimes I interview developers to work with them. Saying these languages are lacking libraries or good tools is unreasonable.

BeetleBOP1y ago

True, but it's trivial to come up with things to dislike in C++ :-)

Const-me1y ago

Great point on C++, but it’s harder for C#. The language and ecosystem are IMO pretty good.

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