Language & Compiler best to develop Illustrator Plugins?

Hi There!
I have a question for those experienced Illustrator plugin developers. What is the most appropriate language to program in, and what compiler is best for making a plugin for Illustrator. With the SDK, is it possible to have access to Illustrator's user interface?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks for your time,
Laz

Never found to many problems porting the plugins from PC to Mac, the only issue I have ever had was with file access and the differences in OS (for presets) Other than that, the main source file, plugin.h, plugindlg.h etc files have all just easily slotted into codeWarrior projects, and now XCode.
The only problems have been with the different versions of plug-ins for 10/CS and CS2 and now with CS3 on the mac. Still got a single set of files for the code on the PC and still using Visual Studio 97 to compile and link my illustrator plugins on graphicxtras.com
Been pleased how easy it was to convert to XCode and the intel/ppc CS3 plugins

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