[wplug] relevance of C for Apps
Chris Romano
romano.chris at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 11:03:48 EDT 2004
I don't want to start a flame war or anything and this is/can be a
loaded question, but is C still a good language for developing Apps?
I know for things like a kernel and very low level stuff, it is still
the number 1 choice. But what about apps in general? One of the
biggest arguments that I hear for using C is that it's fast. With
machines becoming faster and faster and some of the security concerns
around C, is C++ or Java a better choice. Is C that much faster then
C++ and Java. I know that some Java apps can take some time to load
at first. If it's already up and running, is it about the same as
C++. I'm not familiar with C++ or Java, although I had a class in
C++. The teacher was horrible and I really didn't get anything out of
the class. I have used C and do use it when the need comes. I also
hear people talking about using a scripting language like PHP, Python
for the front-end/GUI and C for any heavy processing. Does anyone
have any experiences or insight on this? I guess in the end looking
in the future does it seem better to use C or some other language for
app development.
Thanks,
Chris
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