Hacker News Reader

Some very valid criticisms and interesting observations. I personally think C# is too complicated for it’s own good and takes OOP to an unnecessary extreme, which is why I don't use it (or any .NET-based language, really) for anything other than rapid and simple GUI projects.

View on HN

And what language do you prefer?

I do mostly web development work, so lots of Javascript and PHP. I ported a project to Google App Engine a few months ago and I had a lot of fun working with Python, too. I enjoyed Python so much that I even made a couple of personal projects with it, including a command-line Twitter client.

With C#, I feel forced into strict OOP and it just doesn't give me that same level of enjoyment.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com