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Re:Kotlin Is Better by bpicolo on Thursday May 18, 2017 @08:44AM (#14366714)
I don't think that's necessarily true. Dotnet is still just getting started on Linux, meanwhile the Java ecosystem is insanely mature on Linux. Fwiw, I have been writing dotnetcore lately, and enjoying it, but it definitely doesn't match the java ecosystem in terms of library maturity. Because of Google/Netflix/etc, Java on Linux is a really interesting beast

Not to mention that toying with another language is not such a complicated endeavor once you're 5-10 languages in. The great thing about C# and Kotlin is they've been good at adopting features from other languages that are already good and familiar, so picking them up is generally super easy.

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Re:Kotlin Is Better by WorldMaker on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:51PM (#14370512)
The Mono runtime is quite mature and capable on Linux as the Java ecosystem. Many very good GTK/Gnome apps have been written in C# over the years (Banshee, F-Spot, etc).

.NET Core is awesome, but don't forget that it's not the first time .NET has been available to Linux developers.

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