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Re:ProcMon for Linux by tester34 on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:44AM (#23868892)
Is Java actually ahead of C#?

JVM yea, but Java itself as a lang + frameworks/libs like Spring? I don't think so.

I may be biased, but also I've seen a lot of arguing about Java vs C# (as a langs) feature-wise

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Re:ProcMon for Linux by skissane on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:00AM (#23868959)
Ahead in terms of features, or ahead in terms of market share? I wasn't thinking of the former, more the later.

Which one is ahead in features is debatable. Certainly C# has some goodies which Java lacks, but more recently Java has been catching up.

Which one is ahead in marketshare/mindshare/ecosystem – I think Java is the clear winner here. In part because, despite Oracle's overall ownership, Java gets a lot of attention from other big vendors such as IBM and SAP and Google (putting to one side all the regrettable Oracle-Google legal issues), and a lot of focus from the open source community. By contrast, .Net is basically just Microsoft plus a boatload of small-to-medium vendors, and the .Net open source community has always been smaller than the Java open source community.

(Obligatory disclaimer: I used to work for Oracle, although not directly on Java.)

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Re:ProcMon for Linux by tester34 on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:37AM (#23869143)
Yea, Java's open source community is way bigger, but maybe it will change with time since .NET Core
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