not yet. right now it runs slower than c++ code. It closely resembles vb as far as speed. maybe someday they will speed it up enough for game programming.

C# is a language that will be dominated and controlled by Microsoft. MS products have a history of being instrusive, abusive, bulky, and unreliable. C++ is a far safer bet, if the world starts coding all apps in C#, MS gains control of a LOT.

Question: What is C#?

Is that like cScript of like C or something else I dont even know about...

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C# is M$ version of Java; they created it after they lost a law suit to Sun about illegal modifications of the Java standard.

C# is more like C++ in syntax than Java is, however it only supports single inheritence like Java (unlike C++). It makes no distinction between objects on the stack and objects on the heap - all are dereferenced by the . operator. This might be a big deal if C# didn''t also have automatic garbage collection.

With .NET VB, C#, & C+++ all use the same compiler and same COMponents to access OS services. In a program that perform the same task using the CLR (common language runtime) COMponents the performance between the applications should be identical.

However, if you program in C or C++ you don''t have to use the CLR or any of the newfangled COMponents. All the existing APIs will still be supported by Windows.

So yes, you can write games in C#, as well as Java and VB. A significant amount of the time critical code is behind the DirectX interfaces, which will be accessed in a consistent manor from all the languages with .NET.

Any time I try to use any tool other MSVC, for any purpose, I get pissed about it''s limitations; your-milage-may-vary.


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M$ has wildly changed Visual Basic (for the better) over the years, and it''s still called VB...



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quote:Original post by alexmoura

actually C# is pretty much a standard - MS itself can not change it and still call it C#. Java and Sun, on the other hand...

The C# language specification is standard and open, which means anybody can implement they''re own version of it, BUT all the libraries and stuff are tied up with microsoft, i.e. everything that makes it useful. These are not standard and will probably be prone to as many alterations as all microsofts other stuff.

This is exactly the same with Java, although there are different versions of the language spec. i.e. 1.1,1.2 etc



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