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C# vs Flat UI: What are the differences?
Developers describe C# as "Simple, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language for the .NET platform". C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers. On the other hand, Flat UI is detailed as "Free Bootstrap Framework and Theme". Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.
C# and Flat UI are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Front-End Frameworks" tools respectively.
Flat UI is an open source tool with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.45K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flat UI's open source repository on GitHub.
Stack Exchange, PedidosYa, and Coderus are some of the popular companies that use C#, whereas Flat UI is used by Apexure, Leonis Holding, and SkyQuest. C# has a broader approval, being mentioned in 684 company stacks & 1118 developers stacks; compared to Flat UI, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
In 2015 as Xelex Digital was paving a new technology path, moving from ASP.NET web services and web applications, we knew that we wanted to move to a more modular decoupled base of applications centered around REST APIs.
To that end we spent several months studying API design patterns and decided to use our own adaptation of CRUD, specifically a SCRUD pattern that elevates query params to a more central role via the Search action.
Once we nailed down the API design pattern it was time to decide what language(s) our new APIs would be built upon. Our team has always been driven by the right tool for the job rather than what we know best. That said, in balancing practicality we chose to focus on 3 options that our team had deep experience with and knew the pros and cons of.
For us it came down to C#, JavaScript, and Ruby. At the time we owned our infrastructure, racks in cages, that were all loaded with Windows. We were also at a point that we were using that infrastructure to it's fullest and could not afford additional servers running Linux. That's a long way of saying we decided against Ruby as it doesn't play nice on Windows.
That left us with two options. We went a very unconventional route for deciding between the two. We built MVP APIs on both. The interfaces were identical and interchangeable. What we found was easily quantifiable differences.
We were able to iterate on our Node based APIs much more rapidly than we were our C# APIs. For us this was owed to the community coupled with the extremely dynamic nature of JS. There were tradeoffs we considered, latency was (acceptably) higher on requests to our Node APIs. No strong types to protect us from ourselves, but we've rarely found that to be an issue.
As such we decided to commit resources to our Node APIs and push it out as the core brain of our new system. We haven't looked back since. It has consistently met our needs, scaling with us, getting better with time as continually pour into and expand our capabilities.
C# and .Net were obvious choices for us at LiveTiles given our investment in the Microsoft ecosystem. It enabled us to harness of the .Net framework to build ASP.Net MVC, WebAPI, and Serverless applications very easily. Coupled with the high productivity of Visual Studio, it's the native tongue of Microsoft technology.
Pros of C#
- Cool syntax351
- Great lambda support292
- Great generics support264
- Language integrated query (linq)210
- Extension methods180
- Automatic garbage collection94
- Properties with get/set methods89
- Backed by microsoft83
- Automatic memory management71
- Amaizing Crossplatform Support61
- High performance46
- LINQ42
- Beautiful37
- Great ecosystem of community packages with Nuget34
- Vibrant developer community26
- Great readability23
- Dead-simple asynchronous programming with async/await21
- Visual Studio - Great IDE19
- Open source17
- Productive16
- Strongly typed by default, dynamic typing when needed15
- Object oriented programming paradigm15
- Easy separation of config/application code12
- Great community11
- OOPS simplified with great syntax10
- Cool9
- Operator overloading9
- Good language to teach OO concepts8
- Events management using delegates8
- High-performance8
- Linq expressions7
- Unity7
- Conditional compilation6
- Coherent language backed by an extensive CLR6
- Top level code5
- Comprehensive platform libraries5
- Organized and clean5
- Concise syntax, productivity designed4
- Lovely3
- Statically typed2
- Sophisticated overall1
- Far more sleek and sphisticated than other languages1
- Interfaces1
- Interfaces0
Pros of Flat UI
- Sass support1
- CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap1
- Good for mockups and minimal UI design1
- Basic Flat design1
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Cons of C#
- Poor x-platform GUI support15
- Closed source8
- Fast and secure7
- Requires DllImportAttribute for getting stuff from unma7
Cons of Flat UI
- Not for creative and modern UI design1