Originally posted here by Abtronic
but i would like to know if C# is a suitable language (read: easy to use) for socket programming [IRCD, IRC, other IM applications]. What are your experiences? Do the programs run "more efficiently" than its other .NET counterparts?
I have used C# quite extensively - sorry I haven't used it for any (direct) socket programming, so I can't say whether it's suitable for what you want, but the library generally provides a good set of routines to do most things.

I would say that it probably is fine for what you want to do.

"More efficiently"? You'll have to suck it and see. How efficient your code is may depend on things other than what language it's written in anyway.
I intend to concentrate mainly on VB.NET
Please don't

VB.NET is essentially a kludge made by M$ to gently coax VB programmers out of their shitty little forms, in to the world of real programming. Sadly, it's not similar enough to VB to keep the VB programmers happy, and is essentially just a braindamaged version of C# with weird syntax.

VB.NET == Kludge; braindamaged C# with more ****ed up syntax.

Just use C#. Whatever anyone says, C# is the language the .NET framework was designed to run.

Slarty