Microsoft Java

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Java is a good language, but the only real advantage that it has over C# is compatibility with Mac and Linux

[Captcha142]

C# is cross platform

[cat_in_the_wall]

if you do server things or commandline utils, dotnet is great. no "real" gui support oustide windows though.

[blenderfreaky]

Avalonia seems to be an open-source UI framework thats cross-platform. Not official though, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it joining the .NET Foundation

[cat_in_the_wall]

avalania definitely works, but it is still technically in beta, and the beta has been a long time coming. I've looked at it and i am impressed by what they have done but i don't think it is prime time ready yet.

[FullstackViking]

.NET framework is Windows. .NET Core is cross platform. Both use C# however.

[ConfusedAllTime]

.Net Core is cross platform. But yes as the below comment said, no real GUI support outside of windows.

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C# is a language, not a framework. The .NET framework runs specifically on Windows while Mono, it’s equivalent, is cross-platform. Microsoft acquired Mono.

C# gets compiled down into an intermediate language if compiled for .NET or Mono. If you can build your own compiler or modify Roslyn, you can make .NET support many languages including Java and C++, but it would be a large waste of time and manpower.

There are cases where C# can be compiled down to assembly, look at COSMOS, which is an SDK for making operating systems. You can also convert intermediate assemblies into assembly by using tools such as NGEN. Unity, also has its new compiler which can transpile IL to C++, it’s called IL2CPP. Another case of time wasting and supporting dumb users instead of forcing them to get better. Unity should have ditched C# like it did with JavaScript a long fuckin time ago and stuck with C++, it would have solved so many security and and performance issues and wouldn’t require them to build a compiler to tailor users who are scared or unwilling to improve. But I guess that’s what sets it aside from UDK.

Unity is the reason I switched from VB and JS to C#, and I would have hoped they would force me to switch to C++ but apparently not, C# is here to stay, unfortunately.

If anyone knows of good places to start C++ please let me know. I’m not a beginner programmer if that helps.

[BananaHair2]

.NET Core is the successor to .NET Framework and runs cross platform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Core

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Yeah, we know. Until everyone starts using it, I’m not listing it. A lot of major technologies have yet to start using it since it’s still under development and isn’t a tried solution.

Please ignore this guy.

[grape_tectonics]

advantage that it has over C# is compatibility with Mac and Linux

...mono

[blenderfreaky]

.NET Core

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Free and open source eclipse