Re:Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
by 67726e on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:56AM
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The big drawback with C# is being handcuffed to a Microsoft ecosystem, and will still probably be for a while. I also wonder how the Java ecosystem of tooling and available libraries looks compared to C#.
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Re:Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
by mulrian on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:00AM
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After I switched over from Eclipse to Intellij I think at least the IDE tooling is pretty much equals nowadays. I used Resharper in VS so in many ways you are using the same thing.
As others have said the open source community for Java is still leaps ahead of C#. It's not often you find a library which doesn't have a Java connector/implementation. For C# on the other hand you tend to be much more limited in your options.
I guess this used to be a lot due to the platform dependence of C# (and probably still is). Hopefully .Net Core can help with that, but it's not ready for prime time yet IMO.