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Katilian on 27 February 2008
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Game_boy said:

routsounmanman said:
For little programs doing basic to medium things I'd recommend
Visual Basic ( easy to use yet quite powerful ) or C# For games Java or Flash ( for web games something like my signature )


No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

All of those languages have proprietary implementations, so either you slave yourself to Microsoft Windows (C# and VB) or a virtual machine (Java*, Flash*) that you can't see the workings of. It might not be so bad now, but when you're locked in in the future and that's all you know you will have a problem.

*You could use IcedTea and/or GNU Classpath.

*That includes Silverlight or Shockwave.

Use Java just to learn how to program and make pretty colours, and then use C++ and an OpenGL abstraction like SDL as a precursor to full OpenGL programming.

Don't ever use WinAPI or DirectX.


 As of last year, most of Sun's Java implementation was released under the GPL. The only parts which weren't had their copyrights held by 3rd parties.