Contest: C# vs. Java vs. Visual Basic

[G_Morgan]

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Blog Archive » Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote

Some explanation.

[Xav]

Yeah, some...

[PlayaSkater]

Well... I know Visual Basic, but it has many limitations. Java I've heard is complicated and a little unnecessary since there is C++. C# looks interesting. I might get there next.

[Xav]

No-one's gonna get to post number 300, I think.
C# is almost the same syntax as Java, but with .NET.

[reniery]

I like java

Did i win ???

[TcM]

Well.. all we have to do is continue discussing

someone someday will win.

ATM I'm loving the simplicity of C#

[reniery]

I like both java and c#
I hate Vb sintax , ironically I mostly work in VB

[TcM]

that is quite funny...

I was told that java is slow.

[reniery]

That was the case some years ago , but not now

Java Speed Benchmark

It does feel a little slow at startup, but still its pretty fast

[G_Morgan]

Where Java struggles is with non-native widgets. These do have a serious performance draw back. Nothing I can't live with.

Since I moved to a controller based set up for GUI's (to make unit testing of UI logic possible) it's been trivial to move from one widget set to another in any case.