[ajrad]

Hey people,
I'm a pretty experienced programmer and I'm starting work on a new application but I need a language to do it in.

So can you suggest a language that matches my criteria? :

- Must have C-like syntax (not necessarily exactly the same, basically I just want {curly brackets}, can't stand basic-like languages)

- Easy to make an interface in


My main languages I'm experienced in are PHP, Flash and to an extent C++.
I started making my app in flash but it turns out flash is REALLY hard to make a good user interface for an application with.

So... suggestions?

[brian34]

Have you considered .Net? C# would give you the curly brackets, and the .net dev environment has lots of very rich controls, easy for making a nice UI. I learned C# on the job from the beginning of this year, so it is quite straightforward to master. You can download the express version of C# from the Microsoft website, and its free. There also lots of support forums for when you get stuck...

[ajrad]

Yeah I've taken a look at C# and it seems pretty decent.. cheers

[lemlich]

The latest netbeans IDE makes it relatively easy to create user interfaces
and very easy to write java code, which is similar to c# but also runs on
non-Microsoft systems.