On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Merrows <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a system already written in C# and .NET which I started in > 2003. I have been happy with using c# and .NET as it has a good class > structure, and also Winforms works well for writing client-server > applications. Recently, I have seen much less interest in C# from > developers. > > I want to integrate search results from twitter into the current > system and I am thinking of what languages to use. > > I have googled what language to use, and the limits of JSON and ATOM > have placed some restrictions on what I can do. Especially, some > developers have complained about performance issues using C# and .NET > related to serialization of the data.
C or C++ will be faster, but those are pretty much the only mainstream programming languages faster than C# and Java. Unless your C# JSON or XML/ATOM libraries are a bottleneck, which I doubt... -- Brendan O'Connor - http://anyall.org
