C# works ?
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Posted 26 July 2015 - 02:52 AM
C#/.NET has always been extremely popular in the enterprise. Where it has not been popular is among the opensource crowd.
But since Microsoft open sourced .Net and is making it fully cross-platform and supported soon, it will be interesting to see if it really takes off among that user base.
C# is a very modern language and has so many benefits over languages like C++, but what has held a lot of non-enterprise users back is that the platform is not cheap. Of course you can pirate everything, but if you're trying to be legit, that means a platform that runs windows server + sql server, and visual studio for each dev. Not cheap. For a small business, that doesn't make sense, but the LAMP stack does. For a medium/large sized business, cost doesn't matter as much. What matters more here is the huge supply of software engineers who know the platform, and the level of paid support you can get from namebrand Microsoft when your product has issues.
Edited by Paynless, 26 July 2015 - 02:53 AM.
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