What is the world coming to? Facebook is taking our privacy away, the relationship between Russia and the US is deteriorating daily, C# is being used more and more..

Facebook isn't taking away anything your just not using it right...

Set the privacy levels to maximum and it discloses less than a Google search for your email address would.

@seraphimsystems I think you missed the joke

@TwiN what joke? I don't think the relationship.with Russia and the US is a laughing matter at all.

@seraphimsystems "C# is being used more and more" damnit are you doing it on purpose :@

@TwiN C# is being used more and more, it's a worrying trend...🤷‍♂️

pfff though I'm a C# dev, but I hate using it as hacks, like building mobile apps using Xamarin....

Just use the damn native language and stop this nonsense ....

JS/C#/Ionic/React Native/Flutter ...etc. plz stop I used to like Mobile development but now with all that shit I sometimes feel like I'm a web dev having to deal with shitload of JS frameworks

@gitpush I agree. I think Xamarin and it’s ilk have been largely detrimental as they’re complete kludges.

I personally adore C# and F# (VB can go suck an egg), but I know they have their places.

@Brolls yup "their places" those are the golden words here, and not that C# everywhere or JS everywhere things we see today :\

@gitpush I think they can be everywhere that it makes sense to be, server, desktop, mobile etc are all fine and dandy, but it comes down to the context.

If a native alternative exists that is objectively better, then use that.

It’s always a game of trade offs, but as soon as you get a developer that goes “sweet! I can use {Lang of choice} here and stay in my bubble!” you’ve got the sign of a bad developer.

@Brolls or a if management says the same, a sign of long road ahead :\

@gitpush yep. Had a couple employers go down the “we can just use Xamarin” route.

I use C# because I develop in unity, not sure what unity's native language is, I think it might be boo, don't really want to use boo.

C# isn't that bad, all languages have their purposes :/

@Brolls Hope we never come across these type of people :\

@f03n1x Boo actually runs on the CLR as well, so it’s pretty much the same thing. Unity basically adopted mono as it had the widest support and easy visual studio use for the language without scary C++ etc.

Now that core is gaining traction I can see C# getting all sorts of use (huzzah)

@Brolls oh I love c++ back at uni doing game programming we used an engine built using sdl and the very bare bones built by our lecturer, the class was based around the "Hah, build upon this engine and use it for the assignments", very fun and intense way of learning c++ (it was only one paper where we had 12 weeks, and majority of the class didn't know c++)

But didn't know that about boo, i know that for unity (at least newer versions js is getting phased out)

Really miss the way I could debug with c++ in visual studio, unity console is just not the same :/ eh oh well it works