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[Leind]

Hello
Im looking for a good second language (:
First I was going with Java, but then i read interesting things about C#
My first language is C++
Thanks c:

[mebob]

C# is really only for Windows (unless you consider Mono, but Mono is pretty incomplete currently), while Java is cross-platform. Plus, you can make Java applets with Java, obviously.

[Leind]

Nice thanks, think im going with java :)
And which one you would recommend if the multiplatform wasn't a problem?

[WingedPanther]

It depends a lot on what I'm doing. If I'm doing server-side scripting, I'd probably use C# (ASP.NET). If I'm doing application development on Windows, I'd lean towards C#, because of Visual Studio (very easy to work with). With that said, two of my favorite tools are jEdit and SQuirreL SQL Client, both of which are written in Java.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I wonder if JavaScript is anywhere near these things.

[mebob]

I agree with WingedPanther that if you plan on exclusively programming for Windows, C# is probably a good choice. Visual Studio does make it a LOT easier. However, there are somewhat comparable tools for Java (none quite as good, but still really good).

[WingedPanther]

RhetoricalRuvim said:

I wonder if JavaScript is anywhere near these things.

JavaScript is a very different animal from C#/Java. First, C# and Java are both pure OOP languages, though C# is a little loose in that with some of its features. JavaScript is a prototype language. C#/Java are compiled to bytecode for execution by .NET runtime or JRE, respectively. JavaScript is an interpreted language.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

How about interpreting JavaScript within a Java environment?

[WingedPanther]

If you have a Java interpreter for JavaScript, you are still interpreting JavaScript, you're just using a Java app running under the JRE to do it. Unless there's a JavaScript compiler I don't know about.