| > There are however many situations where neither Java nor C# are options. Not too many anymore, and the space for these situations shrinks over time, rather quickly. 20 years ago, almost everything was implemented in C or C++, for all platforms. The computers didn’t have extra RAM for the GC overhead. Web sites were the first to migrate, probably because security. Desktop GUI apps followed. On mobile, before iPhone was launched in 2007, people used a lot of C or C++ there. PalmOS only supported C, Symbian SDK was C++ based, most Windows Mobile apps were written in C or C++. For the same reason, not enough resources for a GC. We now have gigabytes of memory in these devices and it’s no longer the case, on Android it’s almost 100% Java or Kotlin, on iOS it’s Swift. This is happening with videogames, see Unity3D. Even low level soft-realtime multimedia is good enough for .NET now, here’s an example where my C# implementation delivers same performance as C implementation of VLC player: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo Pretty sure in a couple of years once MS improves a few relevant things in their .NET core (they need better constant propagation, and NEON support) we’ll see high-performance numeric stuff following the trajectory. The hardware SIMD support in .NET core 3.1 is a good step in the right direction. |