Im really interested into creating my own client, but was just wondering what the views are on which programming language would be best.

i have experience with visual basic, but i have heard this is generally too slow to make a serious client.

would it be better learning a language like c++.

thanks 4 ya time

There are several OpenSource VBClients which works quite well..
Of course C++ is faster but I dont know whether its worth to learn it new if you want to code a Gnutella Client.

I myself am coding VB and ASP too
and my progs were not that slow (maybe they were just not
that complex, who knows?)

thanks for the help.

Really it does not matter. Most part of the gnutella client will be _interface_ code, for which VB is definately more suited. If in the end the network-managing part is too slow, you can rewrite that later and use it as a .dll.

I wouldnt go c++ for this.

I'd really stick to the programming language you're most familiar with, in this case VB. If there are issues with the programming language (ie., "too slow"), then your experience can find workarounds for those. That would be easier than learning a new language from scratch.

As noted by others, there are also some existing VB Gnutella clients around (one of the first clones was written in VB, and many followed). Check out http://www.gnutelladev.com for some clients with published code, including a handful of VB versions.

-- Mike

Thanks for the url man,
I have just seen that there is already a
VB hostcache. Maybe I can adapt things from there
since ASP = Vbscript.

read the (boring) FAQ thread

of course winAPI is written in VB too