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user-inactivated · 2081 days ago · link · · parent · post: Pubski: August 8, 2018

I'm teaching myself C# as a gateway into full-fledged C.

You're starting with the way more complicated thing.

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johnnyFive · 2081 days ago · link ·

No way, or at least I've found C# to be much more intuitive. The standard library is a lot more straightforward, and you don't have to do memory management at all if you don't want to. By the same token, you never really have to worry about whether you should pass a variable by reference or by value. Pretty much the only question is whether to make a class static or not.

+discuss