[kaba0]

> Java cannot ever match the feature pace of languages like C# either.

Thank God. Don’t get me wrong, C# is a cool language but languages suffocate under so many features, most devs will simply never ever learn most of them. And some of these features while invaluable in certain rare cases, I would rather prefer a better, more fundamental feature that takes more time and single-handedly solves for many situations.

Unfortunately modern languages really like to throw in everything they have seen from other languages ever, and even with very smart language designers these features will inevitably tangle (khm, swift).

[oaiey]

C# tries to be a system language (for writing servers, runtimes, and even operating systems) AND an application language (for writing your favourite apps). So you have now a huge feature set which is focused on efficient memory handling and then you have another feature set on writing nicely applications (think pattern matching etc).

[gavinray]

It's actually crazy what you can do with C# as far as systems programming nowadays.

I recently wrote a database buffer pool with it, allocating raw aligned memory and directly casting bytes from DB files into in-memory struct pointers.

It's very nearly a systems language in terms of capabilities.

[pjmlp]

While WinDev keeps ignoring such improvements and rather doubles down on the C++ / COM combo, including forcing everyone else to deal with writing .NET bindings to those APIs.

CsWinRT and win32metadata are still quite far from a great usability experience.