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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by pritambarhate on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:44PM (#16354048)
C# and Java. From Open Source standpoint and with Android adoption Java was/is ahead. However, things are changing again. Oracle has announced that they will give free support to Java releases only for six months. It makes JVM a risky, unstable and potentially unsafe platform to develop on. On the other hand, MS is putting a lot of effort to make C# open and to make it run on all platforms.

Both the languages and platforms are very good. But right now there is more influential OSS (HBase, Cassandra, Kafka and many others) stuff in Java. However, I wonder with Oracle's new stance, if C# will become the preferred language for Open Source. Or Maybe Go will leave both Java and C# behind.

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by pjmlp on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:56PM (#16355324)
That is not correct, 6 months support is for the releases that aren't LTS. LTS releases are three years.

Without generics, GUI toolkits, good quality SQL drivers from the vendors themselves, enterprise frameworks and the IDE quality of Java and C#, Go will never be an actual threat to them.

Go 2.0 might be, if it ever happens.

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by pritambarhate on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:23PM (#16356518)
Yes, I know about LTS releases. But upgrade time from one LTS to another LTS is only 3-4 months. Check [1]. For JDK8 for people using it for commercial purpose, the updates will stop in Jan. 2019 only after 4 months since new JDK 11 LTS release.

According to Wikipedia [2] same period for JDK 7 to JDK 8 was 1 year. Also on the same Wikipedia page, you can see how many bugfixes JDK 8 received in that 1 year.

So JDK8 to JDK 11 release is also going to be a little bit risky as people will need to depend only on 3-4 months stability reports to upgrade their production deployments to JDK 11.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by lc94 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:55PM (#16354122)
That's hyperbole. Yes the releases are now every 6 months, but there are still long-term releases that have support for at least 3 years.

The bi-annual releases aren't for companies to upgrade to every 6 months but for power users who like to experiment and try out new bleeding edge features. Same as with Ubuntu releases for example.

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