Re:ProcMon for Linux
by skissane on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:00AM
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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.)
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.)