Hello!

Hello!

I am a long time Delphi and C++ developer. My colleagues at work suggested me to learn C# because they said it is a "mix" of delphi and c++; in particular they said that C# share A LOT of things that delphi has. Googling around (curiosty) I've seen in fact that:

- C# has a very similar threading library (Tasks (run/stop/wait), Monitor class and the class System.Threading in general (same name as delphi)).
- C# has attributes like delphi
- C# has diagnostics like delphi
- C# has sturctures like delphi (TDictionary, Queue, Stack, IEnumerables and other Collections
- C# has datetime/timezone like delphi

and a lot more that my collegagues told me! I don't wanna use c++ for cross platform because I don't like Qt. I use delphi for destkop and cross platform BUT firemonkey and delphi's quality (for mobile) is dying.

They suggested me to move to C# because it will be easy to learn since I know well delphi and c++. Please let's NOT START A DISCUSSION ON "what's the best language?".
I just ask: is C# really easy to learn if you already know c++ and delphi? and is C# really that similar to delphi?

My colleagues said that Xamarin has its problems but it's waay better than firemonkey for cross platform, C# is very powerful (idk) and it's the best cross platform so far. Xamarin has problems as well but it's far above firemonkey. Do you have any experience?

Thanks, Emilia