Does anyone use C#? Just curious

[thebigguyconnor]

Newbie to this forum here, I've been lurking for a while, just thought I'd join.

I mainly do video editing and stuff like that, and I'm learning Turing for school and it seems pretty basic for me, so I'm learning c# on the side just for fun. It's more complex than stuff I've done before but it has that awesome C++ sort of syntax (C++ is a bit too low-level for me I think).

Do you think that this is a language worth learning just for having some fun developing windows forms applications?

Looking for some opinions

[Cool.Breeze]

Yeah, C# is a very popular language. A lot of the programming positions I was interviewed for, for co-op this term, were for jobs using mainly C# on Windows.

[SmokeMonster]

Yes C# is very popular in industry. Most co-op jobs tend to be Java or C#

[mirhagk]

I find C# to be a great mix between ease of writing code, and understanding it, and the program running. Obviously C++ or C will be faster, but you will find that the speed differences are usually very minor, with C# sometimes even being faster.

The nice part about C# is the .NET library, which is a great set of functions and tools for doing a lot of the things you'll find yourself needing, The language is pretty abstract, letting you do really neat things, but it;s also not over the top abstraction where it's hard to even understand what your doing.

In short, it's a great language, well worth learning, and a great next step after turing. You may even find that you will end up using C# in all your applications, even after learning many different languages.