Whats hot with programming languages?
The hot thing now really is .NET. I think people usually have it on their computers by now, but I guess some may not. If you like Delphi, .NET is more along the same lines of what you’ve done than something like C++. I’ve found .NET fairly easy to get into as someone who started doing GUI stuff with Visual Basic 5 or 6. It has similar types of conventions for creating forms and defining actions for them. I’ve found that .NET also scales really well. I’ve created very simple applications using it and very complex ones, and they’ve all performed quite well and been a pleasure to develop. I also want to point out that there is no cost at all for getting into developing .NET applications. Microsoft has made available the Visual Studio .NET Express Editions which are free, fully-featured IDEs based on the professional editions. They’re sometimes described as limited, but I’ve been developing on .NET for about 4 years now, and have only ever ne