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Re:What factors led to the development of C# in spite of Java by vorg on Monday June 25, 2012 @04:30AM (#4155624)
> And because Java the language does not evolve very fast, the ecosystem has given birth to mature JVM compilers/interpreters for languages such as Clojure, Scala, JRuby and Groovy, amongst others.

Most of those examples you gave (i.e. Clojure, Scala, JRuby) also have CLR versions.

Re:What factors led to the development of C# in spite of Java by thebluesky on Monday June 25, 2012 @05:13AM (#4155731)
...And most of the examples you give are more mature on the JVM and most developers in these languages target the JVM exclusively.