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Re:The Coming .NET Renaissance by filereaper on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:58PM (#14474546)
I think the main reason why Java has been far more successful than .NET is due to respect for compatibility.

You don't break previously compiled and working code. Brian Goetz had a wonderful talk about Java stewardship where this was emphasized.

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Re:The Coming .NET Renaissance by BenzinNZ on Saturday June 03, 2017 @07:09AM (#14475848)
Does .NET have a bad reputation for compatibility I don't know about? I thought the only breaking change was with generics in 4.0, still running programs originally compiled for 4.0 with 4.7 installed.
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