What is your preferred language for plugin development?

[pricerc]

In my view arguing one in favour of the other is not a worthwhile thing to to spend time doing as one of the greatest issues in either is the skill set of the developer doing the job and just getting the job done.

Indeed. Although I don't see this as an argument. Just a friendly discussion on the pros and cons of different ways of doing things

As I said, I work with both and I don't have a "favourite", I pick which one to use based on the project at hand. In my current project, I'm working with both. And if I grab a standard Jiwa 'sample' plugin to work from, I'll usually stick with whatever language its already in.

People must work with what they are comfortable with. Because we are not all the same, and have different ways of thinking and viewing the world. This is neither good nor bad, just different.

e.g. your example of: "if(!condition)" vs "if(condition == false)"

While I get your argument that it may be easy to miss the !, but I actually find that "if(condition == false)" just looks wrong, and distracting, and not at all clearer.

Perhaps it comes from my early training in Pascal, which also uses a 'Not', like VB.

[Mike.Sheen]

but I actually find that "if(condition == false)" just looks wrong

Old school C coders would insist on that being "if(false == condition)". Prevents accidental assignments.

[SBarnes]

Actually if(condition = false) won't compile.

Likewise I don't necessarily believe in terms of languages there is enough from the technical point of view to totally tip the scales in favour of c# or vb, like I said previously my preference towards c# is from having done a lot of web based work and go with what you know.

This is further supported by given some recent downtime due to lock downs where I've found time to explore .net core as opposed to the traditional .net framework and look at technologies such Blazor and Maui, Microsoft's push is more towards c# in this area which would put c# ahead of vb but more from a commercial/career perspective in my view than anything else but as we all know technologies don't change on a dime so vb and even the .net framework aren't going to go anywhere any time soon.