Learning C# or Python for Grasshopper?

[AndersDeleuran]

There’s a lot of topics on this subject already. Try doing a search (on the old forum as well).

Anywho, here’s a recent post that might help clarify a few things:

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It’s probably C# not C++. The Python version that Rhino implements is called IronPython i.e. a Python flavour for .NET that is written entirely in C#. You can therefore think of IronPython as a high level and dynamic wrapper around C# with Python syntax. This comes at the cost of performance, where especially large computations will be slower than directly written in C#. For more direct considerations about language differences, have a look at this article from old forum. Generally speaking I …