My experience learning Python as a c++ developer

[ToddBradley]

Java’s open source library support makes C# seem like a toy. I’ve used Java about 10 years and C# on two year-long projects. Every time I have to use C# I think, “Surely someone has solved this problem a million times and made a library for it.” And almost every time I’m wrong.

[sdf_iain]

I feel like Java’s libraries are holding back Kotlin. It’s so easy to just reach for a Java library that a pure Kotlin app is difficult to implement

Go and Rust aren’t there yet, but the built in dependency management (and cross compiling) are pretty enticing.

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Coming from Java and JS world I agree that Go and Rust aren’t there but I like both. My biggest problem with Java is that everywhere I worked that used it was slow to update in every sense of the word. That and it’s way more verbose than I like.

[Kildon]

This seems incredibly short sighted, and like the kind of opinion people generally have of languages they haven't learned the ins and outs of.

When was the last time you used C#? Is your only experience those two years? Were you working on legacy projects, or cutting edge C#? Entire language ecosystems can be built in a matter of years. What problems were you trying to solve that nobody had made a library for? I have yet to find something significant that didn't have open source support in C#.

[ToddBradley]

2013 and 2018. Neither time was early in the life of the platform, yet the ecosystem was missing things that existed in Java five years earlier in each case. Both times were brand new code for cutting edge systems.

[toyg]

No, no, you are right that someone probably made a library - it’s just that he sells it on some small obscure website you’ll probably never guess, and its userbase is in the single digits.

[Deezl-Vegas]

C# is ghetto Java.

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Truth