C# or C++: The best language to develop with?

Technical Support & Q&A
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Hi there,
I’m a developer and I’ve reached a fork in the path of my learning.
In terms of ease of use and quantity of support, is c# or c++ better to develop with?
Best,
Dr Will Seymour

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It really depends a lot on what you plan on delivering.
The windows development environment for C# (GUI/Framework) is much easier to work with.
BUT the performance you get in terms of processing power in c++ can never really be outweighed if you are needing to do lots of math or processing on the data you are working with.

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Thank you so much for your reply.
OK this is what I thought - I’ve been learning C++ for a while now and getting somewhere, but it is expansive!

I wonder if you have any resources for learning more C++ in this specific area (depth cameras etc)?

Also, is there really much benefit to using Visual Studio in Windows vs writing C++ in Mac?

Thank you.
Best,
Dr Seymour

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There is frustratingly not a great deal of books on the depth subject … I guess it really depends on what you plan on developing .

The sensor is only one small part of the systems we are developing … 3d and 2d graphics systems are a place to start … opengl , directx, And possibly a gaming engine or framework. Along with image processing systems such as openCV.

Westa

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C++ is definitely more powerful than c#, but it is also a lot more difficult to grasp than c#. In my experience, unless you’re really good at c++, you might end expending a lot of time fixing bugs instead of progressing in your project.

Also, some of the newest additions to c#, like Span allow to do in c# a lot of the performance tricks you usually do in c++ … so, unless you’re going to do some sort of incredibly advanced stuff, maybe c# is good enough.