The real problem with productivity when using C++ is you have to spend all your time writing into newsgroups defending the productivity of the language.

<t>The MSIL does get compiled at some point. A JIT (just in time) compiler compiles the code the first time a method is invoked during a run of the application. From that point forward (during this particular run of the application) the compiled code is used. There is also an option to compile code ...

<t>J# sucks - I think it's only Java 1.1 compatible and even then it's lacking in some libraries. If your code is simple it might work. I haven't found a project yet it would work on.If you do get it to compile in J# (or any .Net language), adding a COM wrapper is very easy - the online documentatio...

<t>I've been developing a modeling and trading framework for a small company. Initially I started it in C++ but abandonded C++ in favor of .Net languages because of the development speed. I still have some unmanaged C++ to interface to datafeeds, some legacy code and third party packages. I haven't ...