2010-08-27, 03:51 PM
Problems with C# (version 4) in general:
- Compiles to MSIL, no (feasible) way to compile to x86. You either use commercial products to compile everything your application depends on to x86, or you live with MSIL (and JIT). There is also AOT but that is merely for improving performance, not for running applications on platforms without .NET.
- .. nothing with the language ...
Problems with the .NET Framework in general:
- Cross-platform interoperability - it took Microsoft years to develop. Now the open source community has to match that, if they want it on linux and Mac. PITA, much?
- It is huge. But Vista/7 now come with .NET Framework 3.5 so that isn't much of a problem.
- Too easy to reverse engineer - suppose this is a problem with all intermediate languages
Other than that, I love C#.
- Compiles to MSIL, no (feasible) way to compile to x86. You either use commercial products to compile everything your application depends on to x86, or you live with MSIL (and JIT). There is also AOT but that is merely for improving performance, not for running applications on platforms without .NET.
- .. nothing with the language ...
Problems with the .NET Framework in general:
- Cross-platform interoperability - it took Microsoft years to develop. Now the open source community has to match that, if they want it on linux and Mac. PITA, much?
- It is huge. But Vista/7 now come with .NET Framework 3.5 so that isn't much of a problem.
- Too easy to reverse engineer - suppose this is a problem with all intermediate languages
Other than that, I love C#.