From: Bokonon_Lives | #027
C# is the predominant current language of web applications development. Compatibility issues aren't a concern here because it just runs on the server. You can use it to write any other kind of application too, and as was mentioned, XNA is a toolset developed for C# that lets you write games. I find C# very intuitive. It is Microsoft's answer to Java.
After having worked for a company that uses C#/ASP to make websites, I can safely say that that job was the worst coding experience of my life. I found C# to be extremely dumb and pretty much made life hell. In literally every feature implementation these were the steps I went through.
5 mins writing the code that makes most sense to use in any given situation
Literally 2 hours (more if it had to do with a MS DB) getting the stupid thing to stop not working
Spend 5 minutes daydreaming about how long it would take to scrap the entire site and rewrite it in PHP and realize that it would actually take less time than just doing it in C#
Curse for several hours because now it only works in IE and chrome/FF are all ****ed up
I know the arguments for it are "it does everything for you" but there is absolutely nothing that would convince me that the hacky techniques required to get crappy <Asp:XXX> tags to work is better than just writing a script that just does what you want.
But I mean if you understand it then I'm happy for you. I just can't stand it at all.
And whoever said C++ is bad OOP is dead wrong.